Cyclites diminutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclitesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Microdomatidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Microdomatidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 306 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Cyclites diminutus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cyclites diminutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclites diminutus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cyclites diminutus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Hypergonia percostata3 sites
- Araeonema novamexicanum2 sites
- Bellerophon graphicus2 sites
- Cerithioides2 sites
- Euphemites2 sites
- Girtyspira minuta2 sites
- Goniasma lasallense2 sites
- Hemizyga (Hemizyga)2 sites
- Orthonema laluzense2 sites
- Permophorus arcus2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura)2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura plummeri2 sites
- Retispira espinasa2 sites
- Retispira tenuilineata2 sites
- Strobeus paludinaeformis2 sites
- Strobeus primogenius2 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides1 site
- Amphiscapha reedsi1 site
- Amphiscapha subrugosa1 site
- Ananias talpaensis1 site
- Anomphalus1 site
- Anomphalus blancus1 site
- Anomphalus verruculiferus1 site
- Apachella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cyclites diminutus, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and brachiopod and molluscan paleontology of the Red Tanks Formation (Madera Group) near the Pennsylvanian–Permian boundary, Lucero uplift, west-central New Mexico2
- Middle Pennsylvanian gastropods from the Flechado Formation, north-central New Mexico1
Each of the 3 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 Cyclites diminutus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cyclites diminutus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itCyclites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kues and Batten 2001