Cyclospira scanica
No picture of Cyclospira scanica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 scanica, 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 least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 454 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
6 occurrences of Cyclospira scanica 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
6 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
5 formations
- Domusnovas Formation2
- Huangnigang Formation1
- Pyle Mountain Argillite Formation1
- Tangtou Formation1
- Huangnekang Formation1
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The named rock units Cyclospira scanica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclospira scanica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyclospira scanica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Christiania nilssoni5 sites
- Foliomena folium5 sites
- Cyclopyge4 sites
- Hibbertia3 sites
- Telephina (Telephina) fracta3 sites
- Aegiria2 sites
- Amphitryon2 sites
- Arthrorhachis tarda2 sites
- Birmanites latus2 sites
- Corrugatagnostus2 sites
- Dedzetina2 sites
- Dedzetina serpaglii2 sites
- Dionide2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus angelini2 sites
- Jezercia ostiaria2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) fecunda2 sites
- Leptestiina2 sites
- Leptestiina prantli2 sites
- Nankinolithus2 sites
- Nankinolithus granulatus2 sites
- Nileus2 sites
- Paraphillipsinella2 sites
- Pseudobirmanites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyclospira scanica, 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
3 references- A review of the Late Ordovician Foliomena brachiopod fauna with new data from China, Wales, and Poland3
- Foliomena fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Upper Ordovician of Sardinia2
- Late Ordovician (Ashgill) Foliomena Fauna Brachiopods from Northeastern Maine1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Cyclospira scanica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 scanica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclospira scanica 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.
Keep going
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. Sheehan 1973