Cyclus

Cyclus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cyclidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cyclidae

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 239.48 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 8 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–307 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–237 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences330.3 Mya241.464 Mya361 Mya237 Mya

8 occurrences of Cyclus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

4 formations

Pottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.53°N, 2.51°WRottweil — 48.15°N, 8.63°ECarbondale — 41.21°N, 88.22°W

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The named rock units Cyclus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyclus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyclus, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content3

Picture of Cyclus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cyclus americanus · TMNH:00800

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
RoyCo
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCyclidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Koninck 1841