Cyrtiidae

Macropleura Boucot, 1963, a relative of Cyrtiidae — not Cyrtiidae itself

Not Cyrtiidae. This is Macropleura Boucot, 1963, a relative — both are Cyrtiidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyrtioideaPBDB
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 206 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 26 of 910 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 766 of 910 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 117 of 910 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 910 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 910 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 910 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 910 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 910 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 910 occurrences473–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–446 Mya — about 12 occurrences446–436 Mya — about 131 occurrences436–427 Mya — about 482 occurrences427–418 Mya — about 177 occurrences418–409 Mya — about 71 occurrences409–399 Mya — about 14 occurrences399–390 Mya — about 16 occurrences390–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences252–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya251.902 Mya473 Mya196 Mya

910 occurrences of Cyrtiidae 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

910 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

211 formations

Motol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 50.05°N, 14.37°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.32°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.13°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°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, 92.00°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°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 51.72°N, 2.90°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 78.46°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°WKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WRiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°ERiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°EPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.68°N, 25.37°EPaprieniai — 54.47°N, 24.62°EIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WGeluva — 55.00°N, 23.30°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EAttawapiskat — 53.17°N, 81.10°WAttawapiskat — 53.20°N, 81.50°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EWaldron Shale — 35.00°N, 88.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.00°WXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WKuanti — 25.53°N, 103.68°EKuanti — 25.48°N, 103.78°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EChicotte — 49.38°N, 63.60°WChicotte — 49.20°N, 63.08°WChicotte — 49.27°N, 63.07°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WXiushan — 28.55°N, 108.85°EXiushan — 26.58°N, 107.92°EXiushan — 27.52°N, 108.33°E

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The named rock units Cyrtiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 187 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 110 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyrtiidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cyrtiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 569 sites for Cyrtiidae, and this reads 240 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

154 references

Each of the 910 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. 142 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 Macropleura Boucot, 1963

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyrtiidae 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 itCyrtioidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frederiks 1924