Cyclonema rupestre

Stein, B. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclonemaPBDB
- Diet
- coprophage, deposit feederPBDB, for Cyclonema
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cyclonema
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Cyclonema
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Time the record covers
At least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
14 occurrences of Cyclonema rupestre on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
14 occurrences- Ordovician100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
10 formations
- Kõrgessaare Formation2
- Saunja Formation2
- Keisley Formation2
- Körgessaare Formation2
- Boda Limestone Formation1
- Korgessaare Formation · Lyckholm Group1
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The named rock units Cyclonema rupestre has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclonema rupestre and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyclonema rupestre and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Subulites subula6 sites
- Holopea ampullacea5 sites
- Loxoplocus esthona4 sites
- Palaeomphalus obtusangulus4 sites
- Ruedemannia lirata3 sites
- Bekkeromena semipartita2 sites
- Boucotspira carinifer2 sites
- Bucania cornu2 sites
- Dictyonema2 sites
- Ectomaria nieszkowskii2 sites
- Eocryptaenia singularis2 sites
- Eotomaria notabilis2 sites
- Fusispira ovalis2 sites
- Harjumena schmidti2 sites
- Hormotoma insignis2 sites
- Hormotoma meyendorfi2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Maclurina serpentrionalis2 sites
- Megalomphala carinata2 sites
- Megalomphala crassa2 sites
- Oxoplecia2 sites
- Pseudocryptaulina chamaeconus2 sites
- Ruedemannia borkholmiensis2 sites
- Ruedemannia tolli2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cyclonema rupestre, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
5 references- Koken and Perner, 19258
- Locality 9:1 Silurian Sequences at Särghaua Field Station2
- The fauna of the Keisley Limestone. Part II. Conclusion2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Attempted predation and shell repair in Middle and Upper Ordovician gastropods from Sweden1
Each of the 14 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cyclonema rupestre
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stein, B.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cyclonema rupestre was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCyclonema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Eichwald 1856)