Cyclospira orbus
No picture of Cyclospira orbus 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 Cyclospira orbus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cyclospira orbus 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Cyclospira orbus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclospira orbus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyclospira orbus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Acrotretida1 site
- Aegiromenidae1 site
- Amphiplecia bondarevi1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- Christiania aseptata1 site
- Craspedelia potterella1 site
- Cyrtiinida indet.1 site
- Cyrtonotella1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Diambonia discuneata1 site
- Dicoelosia1 site
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis1 site
- Drummuckina1 site
- Ectenoglossa1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica1 site
- Eospirigerina vetusta1 site
- Epitomyonia1 site
- Epitomyonia relicina1 site
- Euroatrypa tajmyrica1 site
- Fardenia1 site
- Geniculina1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Holorhynchus giganteus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cyclospira orbus, 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- Late Ordovician brachiopods from west-central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography1
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from Taimyr, Arctic Russia, and their palaeogeographical significance1
Each of the 2 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. 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 Cyclospira orbus 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 Cyclospira orbus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclospira orbus 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 itCyclospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cocks and Modzalevskaya 1997