Cyrtostropha cava
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtostrophaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cyrtostropha cava 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
- Fentou Formation2
- Upper Visby Formation1
- Slite Formation · Slite Group1
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The named rock units Cyrtostropha cava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtostropha cava and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyrtostropha cava and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Boiotremus longitudinalis2 sites
- Globonema turritum2 sites
- Michelia whiteavesi2 sites
- Pachystrophia gotlandicus2 sites
- Poleumita discors2 sites
- Poleumita rugosa2 sites
- Pycnomphalus acutus2 sites
- Anapetopsis fasciatus1 site
- Bellerophon tubulosus1 site
- Bucania squamosus1 site
- Catazone cingulata1 site
- Conotoma claustrata1 site
- Cyrtostropha subplicata1 site
- Dicoelosia verneuiliana1 site
- Discordichilus dalli1 site
- Frodospira imbricata1 site
- Joleaudella yimgantauensis1 site
- Leptozone esthetica1 site
- Liljevallospira elegantulus1 site
- Longstaffia laqueata1 site
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus1 site
- Murchisonia obtusangula1 site
- Oriostoma1 site
- Oriostoma angulatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cyrtostropha cava, 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 Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Gastropods from Fentou Formation of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Cyrtostropha cava 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 Cyrtostropha cava, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCyrtostropha through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)