Cyrtonella

No picture of Cyrtonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyrtonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyrtonellidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesDevonian — about 12 of 14 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 5 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences458.2 Mya387.95 Mya473 Mya381 Mya

14 occurrences of Cyrtonella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

14 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

5 formations

Marcellus — 42.95°N, 75.68°WMarcellus — 42.95°N, 75.67°WMarcellus — 42.90°N, 75.62°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.84°N, 75.77°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.49°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.00°WBenbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WLantz Mills — 38.53°N, 78.60°W

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The named rock units Cyrtonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyrtonella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cyrtonella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cyrtonella, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cyrtonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyrtonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyrtonella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itCyrtonellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1879)