Cyclonema mediale

Cyclonema mediale

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclonemaPBDB
Diet
coprophage, deposit feederPBDB, for Cyclonema
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cyclonema
Motility
facultatively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Cyclonema
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae

Time the record covers

At most 600 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.7 Mya449.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Cyclonema mediale 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

1 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

1 formation

Leipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°W

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The named rock units Cyclonema mediale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyclonema mediale and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyclonema mediale and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyclonema mediale, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cyclonema mediale

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cyclonema mediale was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCyclonema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897