Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyphomenoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
11 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
5 formations
- Lower Visby Formation6
- Upper Visby Formation2
- Lower Visby Beds Formation1
- Hogklint Beds Formation1
- Wych Formation1
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The named rock units Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Plectatrypa lamellosa4 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti3 sites
- Coolinia pecten3 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus3 sites
- Dicoelosia verneuiliana3 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus3 sites
- Howellella elegans3 sites
- Isorthis loveni3 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa3 sites
- Plectatrypa (Plectatrypa) imbricata3 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia3 sites
- Amphistrophia whittardi2 sites
- Brachyprion2 sites
- Clorinda rotunda2 sites
- Dalejina phaseola2 sites
- Desquamatia2 sites
- Dictyonella capewellii2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis2 sites
- Eoplectodonta duvalii2 sites
- Ferganella borealis2 sites
- Katastrophomena (Katastrophomena) penkillensis2 sites
- Katastrophomena scabrosa2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis, 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- Strophomenidae, Leptostrophiidae, Strophodontidae and Shaleriidae (Brachiopoda, Strophomenida) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden7
- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland3
- An upper Llandovery limestone overlying Hollybush sandstone (Cambrian) in Hollybush quarry, Malvern hills1
Each of the 11 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.
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No picture of Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis 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 itCyphomenoidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamont and Gilbert 1945)