Cleionychia primitiva
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CleionychiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.9 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Cleionychia primitiva on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Cleionychia primitiva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cleionychia primitiva and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cleionychia primitiva and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata3 sites
- Illaenus gigas3 sites
- Parillaenus fallax3 sites
- Bucania gracillima2 sites
- Cameroceras2 sites
- Caryocystites lagenalis2 sites
- Ceraurus latifrons2 sites
- Discoceras amtjaernense2 sites
- Furudaloceras tomtei2 sites
- Haplosphaeronis oblonga2 sites
- Hoeloceras muroni2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Isorthoceras2 sites
- Isorthoceras sylphide2 sites
- Orbiculoidea kullsbergensis2 sites
- Ordogeisonoceras tartuensis2 sites
- Ordogeisonoceras uppsalaensis2 sites
- Palaeomphalus obtusangulus2 sites
- Platylichas lingua2 sites
- Pleurorthoceras2 sites
- Prionocheilus foveolatum2 sites
- Sphaerexochus hisingeri2 sites
- Stichocystis geometrica2 sites
- Striatocycloceras2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cleionychia primitiva, 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
2 references- Upper Ordovician bivalves from the Oslo Region, Norway3
- Studien über Lamellibranchiaten des Leptaenakalkes in Dalarna3
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cleionychia primitiva was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cleionychia primitiva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cleionychia primitiva 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 itCleionychia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Isberg 1934)