Cybele

Cybele is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the middle Ordovician in what is now Sweden. It was described by Loven in 1846, and the type species is Cybele bellatula, which was originally described dubiously under the genus Calymene by Dalman in 1827. The type locality was in Östergötland.

Cybele

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CybelinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 38 of 38 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 38 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–471 Mya — about 6 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 10 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–462 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya449.6 Mya477.8 Mya442.4 Mya

38 occurrences of Cybele 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

38 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

15 formations

Volkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EViivikonna — 59.70°N, 29.67°EViivikonna — 59.44°N, 28.79°ELeetse — 59.63°N, 30.80°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ECrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.40°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.44°WHolen — 57.32°N, 17.00°EHolen — 57.00°N, 16.82°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WDalby — 58.00°N, 12.00°ELynna — 59.97°N, 32.57°EKullsberg Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°ELeetse — 59.45°N, 25.18°ETuloi — 52.02°N, 87.12°EKochakan — 67.53°N, 104.18°EConfinis Flags — 55.19°N, 4.75°W

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The named rock units Cybele has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cybele and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cybele and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Cybele, 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

14 references

Each of the 38 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. 2 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 content3

Picture of Cybele

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Speyeria cybele · VPI:VTEC:VTEC000004911

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCybelinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lovén 1845