Cyclocolposa
R J. Scolaro · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BryocryptellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cyclocolposa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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
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The named rock units Cyclocolposa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclocolposa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cyclocolposa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Anadara aequicostata4 sites
- Astyris lunata4 sites
- Balanus4 sites
- Boonea impressa4 sites
- Boonea seminuda4 sites
- Brachyura4 sites
- Busycon4 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus4 sites
- Chaetopleura4 sites
- Cliona4 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata4 sites
- Cotonopsis (Cotonopsis) lafresnayi4 sites
- Crepidula convexa4 sites
- Crepidula fornicata4 sites
- Crepidula plana4 sites
- Cribrilina4 sites
- Cumingia tellinoides4 sites
- Electra4 sites
- Ensitellops4 sites
- Epitonium4 sites
- Hippoporina pertusa4 sites
- Mercenaria permagna4 sites
- Mulinia lateralis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyclocolposa, 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- Checklist of megafossils from the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene) at Johnson Point, Craven County, North Carolina4
- Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cyclocolposa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- R J. Scolaro
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyclocolposa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBryocryptellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1923