Cirpa variabilis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CirpaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 13 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrences249–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 3 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 4 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 3 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya165.3 Mya249 Mya160 Mya

15 occurrences of Cirpa variabilis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

15 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

4 formations

Pisznicei Mészko — 47.45°N, 18.29°EPisznicei Mészko — 47.66°N, 18.47°EWetterstein — 47.30°N, 11.37°ESaltrio — 45.88°N, 8.92°ELias — 51.40°N, 2.46°W

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The named rock units Cirpa variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cirpa variabilis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cirpa variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cirpa variabilis, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 Cirpa variabilis 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 Cirpa variabilis, 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 itCirpa through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1813)