Cycloconchidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnodontopsoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 462 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Ordovician — about 91 of 129 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 129 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 129 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 129 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 129 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 129 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 129 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 129 occurrencesPaleocene — about 29 of 129 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 129 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 129 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 129 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 129 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 129 occurrences487–470 Mya — about 25 occurrences470–454 Mya — about 47 occurrences454–438 Mya — about 19 occurrences405–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–373 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–49 Mya — about 29 occurrences49–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence473.8 Mya11.63 Mya487 Mya0 Mya

129 occurrences of Cycloconchidae 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

129 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

37 formations

Fort Union — 42.30°N, 108.10°WFort Union — 41.52°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.59°N, 109.25°WFort Union — 41.17°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.72°WFort Union — 46.87°N, 102.57°WFort Union — 46.92°N, 103.52°WFort Union — 46.42°N, 105.82°WFort Union — 46.10°N, 109.95°WFort Union — 44.95°N, 107.33°WFort Union — 46.48°N, 113.48°WFort Union — 47.22°N, 104.67°WFort Union — 45.88°N, 106.62°WFort Union — 46.80°N, 105.32°WFort Union — 46.37°N, 102.33°WFort Union — 47.97°N, 102.55°WFort Union — 47.40°N, 103.25°WFort Union — 41.57°N, 108.58°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.87°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.75°WHsiangyang — 25.73°N, 100.25°EOgof Hen — 51.82°N, 4.37°WOgof Hen — 51.88°N, 5.33°WSarka — 49.77°N, 13.60°ESarka — 49.97°N, 15.35°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WNora — 23.05°S, 139.23°ENora — 22.48°S, 135.42°ENora — 22.87°S, 135.74°ENora — 22.90°S, 138.76°EGrès Armoricain — 48.00°N, 2.00°WGrès Armoricain — 48.00°N, 1.00°WSuri — 29.00°S, 68.00°WSuri — 28.00°S, 68.00°WSuri — 26.43°S, 66.85°WWeatherall — 73.50°N, 112.00°WZahorany — 50.08°N, 14.58°EZahorany — 50.05°N, 14.37°EZahorany — 49.99°N, 14.15°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESchistes d'Angers — 48.00°N, 4.00°WSchistes d'Angers — 48.00°N, 2.00°WWasatch — 39.53°N, 107.78°WWhitewater — 38.60°N, 85.28°WDongchong — 23.11°N, 111.67°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCarmarthen — 51.84°N, 4.30°WSanta Gertrudis — 25.00°S, 65.00°WLa Cantera — 31.30°S, 68.53°WBardahessiagh — 54.60°N, 6.93°WMotojuku — 36.25°N, 138.75°ESchistes Botella — 38.00°N, 4.00°WSchistes de Morgat — 48.25°N, 4.47°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WHecla Bay — 73.50°N, 112.00°W

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The named rock units Cycloconchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycloconchidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cycloconchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Cycloconchidae, 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

40 references

Each of the 129 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. 28 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 content0

No picture of Cycloconchidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cycloconchidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cycloconchidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1884