Cyrtodonta solitaria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtodontaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cyrtodonta solitaria on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Day Point Formation1
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Cyrtodonta solitaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyrtodonta solitaria and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyrtodonta solitaria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Lophospira rectistriata2 sites
- Orthambonites exfoliata2 sites
- Raphistoma stamineum2 sites
- Raphistoma striatum2 sites
- Amphilichas minganensis1 site
- Archinacella proprius1 site
- Blastoidocrinus1 site
- Bolboporites americanus1 site
- Bucania sulcatina1 site
- Camerella varians1 site
- Cleionychia marginalis1 site
- Eurychilina latimarginata1 site
- Floripatella irregularis1 site
- Heliomeroides teres1 site
- Hibbertia valcourensis1 site
- Isotelus beta1 site
- Kawina chazyensis1 site
- Leperditia canadensis1 site
- Mimella vulgaris1 site
- Palaeoglossa belli1 site
- Paleocystites tenuiradiatus1 site
- Petrocrania prona1 site
- Phylloporina incepta1 site
- Platillaenus erastusi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cyrtodonta solitaria, 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- The Pelecypoda of the Chazy Formation1
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna1
- The fauna of the Chazy Limestone1
Each of the 3 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cyrtodonta solitaria 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 Cyrtodonta solitaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtodonta solitaria 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 itCyrtodonta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1905