Cyrtodontula complanata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtodontulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontula
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 455 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 445.5 Mya.
9 occurrences of Cyrtodontula complanata 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
9 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
6 formations
- Waynesville Formation2
- Nakkholmen Formation2
- Norderhov Formation1
- Lorraine Formation1
- Chasmops Shale Formation1
- Arnestad Formation1
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The named rock units Cyrtodontula complanata 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.
Cyrtodontula complanata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyrtodontula complanata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi3 sites
- Ambonychinia quadrata2 sites
- Catazyga headi2 sites
- Hedstroemina ungula2 sites
- Pterinea demissa2 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata2 sites
- Ambonychinia amygdalina1 site
- Apianurus abietinus1 site
- Archinacella pulaskiensis1 site
- Atractopyge1 site
- Broeggerolithus discors1 site
- Byssonychia radiata1 site
- Bythocypris cylindrica1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Christiania holtedahli1 site
- Clidophorus planulatus1 site
- Clidophorus postvolutus1 site
- Cryptolithus tessellatus1 site
- Ctenobolbina ciliata1 site
- Ctenodonta chambliensis1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cyclonema1 site
- Cymatonota recta1 site
- Cyrtodontula dubia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cyrtodontula complanata, 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
2 references- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway: 11, Pelecypoda6
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec3
Each of the 9 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. 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 Cyrtodontula complanata 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 Cyrtodontula complanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtodontula complanata 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 itCyrtodontula through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Foerste 1914)