Cycloserpula

No picture of Cycloserpula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cycloserpula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulimorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Motility
stationary, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Serpulimorpha

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 21 of 52 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 29 of 52 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 52 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 11 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 8 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 4 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 4 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.2 Mya106.3 Mya172 Mya99 Mya

52 occurrences of Cycloserpula on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

52 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

17 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WCoralline Oolite — 54.23°N, 0.43°WCoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WBerkshire Oolite — 51.78°N, 1.18°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WMiddle Calcareous Grit — 54.21°N, 0.29°WLower Calcareous Grit — 54.21°N, 0.29°WLourinhã — 39.10°N, 9.27°WTendaguru — 9.72°S, 39.22°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.81°EConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EKatrol — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WCamarena — 37.38°N, 4.78°WPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°EJabalcuz — 37.75°N, 3.70°W

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The named rock units Cycloserpula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycloserpula and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cycloserpula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cycloserpula, 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

15 references

Each of the 52 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. 3 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

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No picture of Cycloserpula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSerpulimorpha through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parsch 1956