Cyrtia

Cyrtia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 187 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 191 occurrencesSilurian — about 188 of 191 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 191 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 191 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 191 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 191 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 191 occurrences448–440 Mya — about 8 occurrences440–431 Mya — about 75 occurrences431–423 Mya — about 104 occurrences423–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–381 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439.4 Mya251.902 Mya448 Mya197 Mya

191 occurrences of Cyrtia 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

191 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

68 formations

Motol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.32°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°ERiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.68°N, 25.37°EPaprieniai — 54.47°N, 24.62°ERacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°ELaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 77.21°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.30°WWilliamson — 43.24°N, 76.14°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EChicotte — 49.38°N, 63.60°WChicotte — 49.20°N, 63.08°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°ERockway — 43.15°N, 77.06°WKabanka — 56.00°N, 60.00°EEl Horno — 8.60°N, 71.15°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 47.75°N, 67.00°WWoduhe — 50.50°N, 125.78°EWoduhe — 51.00°N, 125.00°EPangamaja — 58.00°N, 22.03°E

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The named rock units Cyrtia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyrtia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cyrtia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,400 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 165 sites for Cyrtia, 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

59 references

Each of the 191 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. 47 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 Cyrtia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyrtia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dalman 1828