Cymatospira

No picture of Cymatospira 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 Cymatospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KnightitinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 77 of 78 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 78 occurrencesPermian336–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 11 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 12 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 12 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 11 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 9 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 6 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 5 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya290.1 Mya336 Mya282 Mya

78 occurrences of Cymatospira on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

78 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

31 formations

Allegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 39.67°N, 81.33°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.10°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WCherokee Shale — 37.36°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.21°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.33°N, 94.80°WCherokee Shale — 37.13°N, 95.10°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.42°N, 80.19°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 34.95°N, 96.38°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WKrebs — 37.83°N, 94.49°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WFort Scott Limestone — 36.42°N, 95.64°WHepler — 37.19°N, 95.42°WOread — 36.30°N, 96.49°WRío del Peñón — 28.60°S, 68.74°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WBar B — 32.87°N, 107.27°WBeech Creek — 38.09°N, 90.00°WGolconda — 37.12°N, 87.78°WGlen Dean — 37.37°N, 88.97°WHaney Limestone — 38.08°N, 89.97°WAdmiral — 33.59°N, 98.96°WMaxville Limestone — 39.87°N, 82.10°WMaxville — 39.60°N, 81.60°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WMineral Wells — 32.89°N, 98.14°W

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The named rock units Cymatospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Cymatospira and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cymatospira and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

674 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Cymatospira, 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

24 references

Each of the 78 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. 12 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

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No picture of Cymatospira 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 Cymatospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cymatospira was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itKnightitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knight 1942)