Cuneamya

Cuneamya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrammysiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 57 of 79 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 14 of 79 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 79 occurrencesDevonian479–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 12 occurrences453–449 Mya — about 21 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 10 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 7 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 3 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–426 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–384 Mya — about 5 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences469.1 Mya387.95 Mya479 Mya380 Mya

79 occurrences of Cuneamya 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

79 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

39 formations

Martinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.38°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.09°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.65°N, 75.16°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.66°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.47°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WLexington Limestone — 37.95°N, 84.74°WLexington Limestone — 38.21°N, 84.88°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WLorraine — 45.37°N, 75.40°WLorraine — 46.82°N, 71.24°WLangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°EProsser Limestone — 42.50°N, 91.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WHerkimer — 43.04°N, 75.36°WLangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WAllt-Ddu Mudstones — 53.00°N, 4.00°WSepulturas — 23.00°S, 66.00°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WGalena Dolomite — 42.50°N, 92.50°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WCano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°W

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The named rock units Cuneamya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuneamya and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cuneamya and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

886 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Cuneamya, 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

32 references

Each of the 79 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. 20 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 Cuneamya

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Whitfield 1875