Cryptonella

Cryptonella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CryptonellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 335.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 89 occurrencesDevonian — about 88 of 89 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 89 occurrencesCarboniferous421–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 5 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 5 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 5 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 5 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 5 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 5 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 5 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 13 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 20 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 10 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413.02 Mya339.9 Mya421 Mya334 Mya

89 occurrences of Cryptonella 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

89 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

26 formations

Ludlowville — 42.80°N, 78.85°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 75.54°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WTully — 42.83°N, 75.78°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WAmherstburg — 43.88°N, 81.30°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WSolonchatskaya — 51.77°N, 59.10°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EIcla — 19.17°S, 64.92°WIcla — 17.75°S, 64.82°WIcla — 18.93°S, 64.93°WGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°EBelen — 17.08°S, 68.00°WBelen — 17.00°S, 68.00°WPine Point — 61.00°N, 114.26°WLogansport Limestone — 40.72°N, 86.22°WThree Forks Shale — 45.83°N, 111.64°WTalacasto — 30.00°S, 68.00°WGamka — 33.78°S, 20.92°EFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WGamoneda — 21.52°S, 64.75°WErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ELebanza — 43.00°N, 0.92°WMurray Creek — 42.12°S, 171.85°EShubartau — 51.77°N, 59.10°ESafonovski — 54.37°N, 86.18°EOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WNorway Point — 45.20°N, 83.73°W

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The named rock units Cryptonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptonella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cryptonella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

727 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Cryptonella, 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

33 references

Each of the 89 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. 21 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 Cryptonella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cryptonella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.