Cimitaria

Cimitaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrammysiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.1 Mya to 335.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 31 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 27 of 31 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferous442–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences410–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–384 Mya — about 10 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 5 occurrences380–377 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439.4 Mya342.9 Mya442 Mya333 Mya

31 occurrences of Cimitaria 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

31 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

16 formations

Moscow — 42.68°N, 76.74°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.14°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.53°N, 74.81°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.22°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WYujiang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EKartal — 40.90°N, 29.18°ETaemas — 35.00°S, 149.00°EMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WPimenteira — 7.08°S, 41.65°WErere — 2.00°S, 54.00°WLynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WBolitho Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAdam Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAlexander Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°W

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The named rock units Cimitaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cimitaria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cimitaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cimitaria, 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

16 references

Each of the 31 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Cimitaria

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cimitaria was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itGrammysiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Whitfield 1869