Cymatonota

Cymatonota

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 94 occurrencesOrdovician — about 92 of 94 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 94 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 94 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–471 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 13 occurrences453–449 Mya — about 34 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 24 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 6 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469.4 Mya387.95 Mya489 Mya380 Mya

94 occurrences of Cymatonota 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

94 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

39 formations

Waynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.38°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 45.75°N, 87.02°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.42°WLorraine — 43.69°N, 79.36°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.11°N, 84.51°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.95°N, 93.10°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WGeorgian Bay — 43.74°N, 79.56°WMcMillan — 39.11°N, 84.51°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WNicolet River — 45.37°N, 73.44°WNicolet River — 46.00°N, 72.00°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMartinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.50°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 42.50°N, 91.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WSugar River Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WSugar River Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WWaynesville — 45.50°N, 75.00°WWaynesville — 43.65°N, 79.40°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WSugar River — 43.21°N, 75.46°WArnestad — 60.00°N, 11.00°EGangouchun — 18.40°N, 109.25°E

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The named rock units Cymatonota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymatonota and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cymatonota and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

951 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Cymatonota, 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

28 references

Each of the 94 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. 16 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

Media content1

Picture of Cymatonota

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cymatonota 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893