Cleionychia pulchella
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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 most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cleionychia pulchella 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cleionychia pulchella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cleionychia pulchella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cleionychia pulchella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Semicorallidomus whitfieldi3 sites
- Acidaspis evoluta2 sites
- Ambonychinia corrugata2 sites
- Amphilichas dalecarlicus2 sites
- Amphilichas latifrons2 sites
- Cyphaspis2 sites
- Decoroproetus asellus2 sites
- Diestoceras2 sites
- Discoceras antiquissima2 sites
- Goniophorina volvens2 sites
- Gorbyoceras alternestriatum2 sites
- Holotrachelus punctillosus2 sites
- Illaenus linnarssoni2 sites
- Isocolus sjogreni2 sites
- Lichas affinis2 sites
- Orbiculoidea gibba2 sites
- Pompeckia minor2 sites
- Primaspis evoluta2 sites
- Proetus2 sites
- Richardsonoceras sinuososeptatum2 sites
- Stenoblepharum warburgae2 sites
- Stenopareia oviformis2 sites
- Streptelasma primum2 sites
- Acidaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cleionychia pulchella, 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- Studien über Lamellibranchiaten des Leptaenakalkes in Dalarna2
- Upper Ordovician bivalves from the Oslo Region, Norway1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cleionychia pulchella 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 Cleionychia pulchella, 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 itCleionychia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindstrom 1880)