Cyclacantharia kingorum

Cyclacantharia kingorum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclacanthariaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lyttoniidina

Time the record covers

At least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 56 of 56 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 5 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 5 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266.9 Mya264.28 Mya274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

56 occurrences of Cyclacantharia kingorum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

56 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

7 formations

Word — 30.39°N, 103.14°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.16°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.29°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WBell Canyon — 31.90°N, 104.82°WLas Delicias — 26.43°N, 102.88°WCutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°WDelaware Mountain — 31.17°N, 104.35°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°W

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The named rock units Cyclacantharia kingorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclacantharia kingorum and its relatives

Permian

Where Cyclacantharia kingorum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

641 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Cyclacantharia kingorum, 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

4 references

Each of the 56 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. 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 Cyclacantharia kingorum

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GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyclacantharia kingorum 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. Cooper and Grant 1969