Cyclocyclicus

No picture of Cyclocyclicus 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 Cyclocyclicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrinoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crinoidea
Life habit
upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Crinoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crinoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 212 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesOrdovician — about 13 of 23 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPermian491–483 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483–475 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–342 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences342–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences477.1 Mya264.28 Mya491 Mya255 Mya

23 occurrences of Cyclocyclicus 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

23 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

14 formations

Aluvere — 59.34°N, 27.41°EAluvere — 59.37°N, 24.50°EKeila — 59.31°N, 24.43°EKeila — 59.01°N, 26.67°EJianlin — 18.40°N, 109.25°EXibiehe — 42.00°N, 110.00°EMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°ELisen — 49.23°N, 16.76°EClifton Down Limestone — 51.18°N, 2.43°WTurkparidinskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EHonghuayuan — 30.10°N, 116.93°EDushan — 25.42°N, 107.38°EJohvi — 59.34°N, 27.41°EVarlyginskaya — 58.43°N, 40.94°ETolo Harbour — 22.45°N, 114.23°EFerradosa — 40.31°N, 8.33°W

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The named rock units Cyclocyclicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclocyclicus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyclocyclicus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Cyclocyclicus, 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

16 references

Each of the 23 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. 4 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 Cyclocyclicus 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 Cyclocyclicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyclocyclicus 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 itCrinoidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yeltysheva 1955