Cyclina lunulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Cyclina lunulata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Kunugidaira Formation3
- Lower Sandstone Formation · Bihoku Group2
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The named rock units Cyclina lunulata 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.
Cyclina lunulata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cyclina lunulata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Dosinia (Phacosoma)4 sites
- Euspira meisensis4 sites
- Fissidentalium4 sites
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)3 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Calyptraea3 sites
- Crassostrea3 sites
- Lucinoma3 sites
- Sinum ineptum3 sites
- Acila (Acila) submirabilis2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Atrina2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Cernina fluctuata nakamurai2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Corbula (Solidicorbula)2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Hedecardium ogurai2 sites
- Mizuhopecten kimurai2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Nerita (Amphinerita)2 sites
- Nipponomarcia nakamurai imobaraensis2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pugilina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclina lunulata, 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
3 references- Plant and molluscan fossil assemblages rom the Lower Miocene Kunugidaira Formation in the southern part of the Joban coal-field3
- New fossil molluscs indicating tropical sea elements from the miocene Bihoku Group, southwest Honshu, Japan: Part 2 Description of Cancilla hirosei n. sp., with notes on some molluscs from the Bihoku Group of Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture2
- Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan2
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Cyclina lunulata 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 Cyclina lunulata, 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 itCyclina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Makiyama 1926