Syncyclonema kingi
No picture of Syncyclonema kingi 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 Syncyclonema kingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SyncyclonemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Syncyclonema
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Syncyclonema
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Syncyclonema
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Entoliidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Syncyclonema kingi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
21 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Syncyclonema kingi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Syncyclonema kingi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Syncyclonema kingi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
256 taxa- Nuculana20 sites
- Striarca20 sites
- Crenella serica19 sites
- Vetericardiella18 sites
- Cymbophora16 sites
- Nymphalucina linearia16 sites
- Malletia15 sites
- Anomia argentaria13 sites
- Vertebrata13 sites
- Nucula percrassa12 sites
- Crassatella vadosa11 sites
- Dentalium leve11 sites
- Tellinimera11 sites
- Bellifusus10 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica10 sites
- Crenella elegantula10 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata10 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis10 sites
- Periplomya10 sites
- Cyclorisma9 sites
- Cylichna9 sites
- Micrabacia9 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata9 sites
- Acteon8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Syncyclonema kingi, 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- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain13
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages6
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf2
Each of the 21 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 Syncyclonema kingi 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 Syncyclonema kingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Syncyclonema kingi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSyncyclonema through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941