Circulichnis
No picture of Circulichnis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Circulichnis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 219 million years on record.
The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Circulichnis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian33%
- Ordovician33%
- Carboniferous33%
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
- Stranger Formation1
- Torreárboles Formation1
- Powers Steps Formation · Wabana Group1
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The named rock units Circulichnis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Circulichnis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Circulichnis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Diplichnites2 sites
- Helminthopsis2 sites
- Monomorphichnus2 sites
- Bergaueria radiata1 site
- Catenichnus1 site
- Catenichnus contentus1 site
- Cochlichnus1 site
- Cordubia gigantea1 site
- Curvolithus1 site
- Dactylophycus quadripartitus1 site
- Dendroidichnites1 site
- Diplocraterion1 site
- Diplopodichnus biformis1 site
- Dolopichnus gulosus1 site
- Gordia1 site
- Gordia arcuata1 site
- Helminthoidichnites1 site
- Helminthoidichnites marinus1 site
- Kouphichnium1 site
- Lingulichnus verticalis1 site
- Lockeia avalonensis1 site
- Mirandaichnium1 site
- Palaeophycus1 site
- Palaeophycus alternatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Circulichnis, 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- Stranded jellyfish in the lowermost Cambrian (Corduban) of Spain1
- Ichnology of an Upper Carboniferous fluvio-estuarine paleovalley: The Tonganoxie Sandstone, Buildex Quarry, eastern Kansas, U.S.A1
- Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada1
Each of the 3 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 Circulichnis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Circulichnis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Circulichnis 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vyalov 1971