Cymaclymenia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymaclymeniinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Clymeniida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
127 occurrences of Cymaclymenia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
127 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
13 formations
- Stourscombe Formation6
- Daihua Formation5
- Heishantou Formation5
- Wocklum Formation4
- Rongxian Formation2
- Gatepost Formation · Petherwin Group2
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The named rock units Cymaclymenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cymaclymenia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cymaclymenia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
166 taxa- Mimimitoceras18 sites
- Cyrtoclymenia14 sites
- Mimimitoceras liratum12 sites
- Kalloclymenia10 sites
- Kosmoclymenia9 sites
- Linguaclymenia similis9 sites
- Balvia8 sites
- Parawocklumeria paradoxa8 sites
- Wocklumeria sphaeroides8 sites
- Muessenbiaergia sublaevis7 sites
- Imitoceras6 sites
- Linguaclymenia6 sites
- Acutimitoceras5 sites
- Acutimitoceras intermedium5 sites
- Discoclymenia cucullata5 sites
- Gonioclymenia5 sites
- Palmatolepis5 sites
- Parawocklumeria4 sites
- Pseudopolygnathus4 sites
- Sporadoceras4 sites
- Acutimitoceras (Stockumites) kleinerae3 sites
- Acutimitoceras subbilobatum3 sites
- Bispathodus3 sites
- Bispathodus aculeatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Cymaclymenia, 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
16 references- A morphometric approach to conch ontogeny of Cymaclymenia and related genera (Ammonoidea, Late Devonian)79
- Famennian ammonoid stratigraphy of the Ma'der and Tafilalt (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)8
- Ammonoids and trilobites from the Upper Devonian and Lowest Carboniferous of the Launceston area of Cornwall8
- The ammonoid faunal change near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary6
- Upper Devonian (Famennian) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) ammonoids from western Junggar, Xinjiang, northwestern China - stratigraphy, taxonomy and palaeobiogeography5
- Some Late Devonian trilobites of China5
- Middle Famennian ammonoid stratigraphy in the Amessoui Syncline (Late Devonian; eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)3
- Devonskie ammonoidei I. Agoniatitidy3
- Devonian-Carboniferous Carbonates around Guilin, South China: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology2
- The Devonian/Carboniferous Boundary in the Carnic Alps (Austria) - A Multidisciplinary Approach2
- The Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous ammonoids (Cephalopoda) from Milivojevića Kamenjar, Družetić (NW Serbia) and their stratigraphy1
- On the occurrence of Famennian ammonoids in the northern Caucasus1
Each of the 127 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Cymaclymenia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- W Krawczyński
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCymaclymeniinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884