Cyclospira perplexa

No picture of Cyclospira perplexa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyclospira perplexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclospiraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451.3 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451.3 Mya449.2 Mya453 Mya444.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Cyclospira perplexa 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

5 occurrences

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

3 formations

Killey Bridge — 54.59°N, 6.90°WDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WCraighead — 55.25°N, 4.85°W

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The named rock units Cyclospira perplexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyclospira perplexa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyclospira perplexa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyclospira perplexa, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cyclospira perplexa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyclospira perplexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyclospira perplexa 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 itCyclospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williams 1962)