Cyrtonellopsis

No picture of Cyrtonellopsis 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 Cyrtonellopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyrtolitidaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya457.3 Mya487.6 Mya448.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Cyrtonellopsis 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

5 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

2 formations

St. Peter Sandstone — 44.98°N, 93.26°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.90°N, 93.03°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGasconade — 37.97°N, 91.33°W

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

Cyrtonellopsis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyrtonellopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyrtonellopsis, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content0

No picture of Cyrtonellopsis 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 Cyrtonellopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyrtonellopsis 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 itCyrtolitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yochelson 1958