Cyrtina hamiltonensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
150 occurrences of Cyrtina hamiltonensis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
150 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
21 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group34
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group31
- Tully Formation · Tully Group17
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group13
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group12
- Onondaga Formation9
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The named rock units Cyrtina hamiltonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyrtina hamiltonensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyrtina hamiltonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
689 taxa- Devonochonetes scitulus52 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus52 sites
- Eldredgeops rana45 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus44 sites
- Crinoidea43 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus38 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana34 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi33 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata30 sites
- Elita fimbriata29 sites
- Pseudoatrypa devoniana28 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus27 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta27 sites
- Mucrospirifer26 sites
- Spinocyrtia granulosa26 sites
- Aulopora25 sites
- Sulcoretepora24 sites
- Platyceras22 sites
- Tylothyris mesacostalis22 sites
- Actinopteria boydi21 sites
- Katabuporhynchus mesacostalis21 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides20 sites
- Floweria arctostriata20 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Cyrtina hamiltonensis, 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
29 references- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology25
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York21
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin15
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis11
- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York11
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation8
- Brachiopods and Community Ecology of the Onondaga Limestone6
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State5
- Community paleoecological study of the Silica Shale equivalent of northeastern Indiana4
- Devonian rocks of the Lake Winnipegosis - Lake Manitoba outcrop belt, Manitoba4
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania4
- Tully Formation of New York4
Each of the 150 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. 17 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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Picture of Cyrtina hamiltonensis
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No 3D scan of Cyrtina hamiltonensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itCyrtina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1857)