Cyrtinaella causa
No picture of Cyrtinaella causa 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 Cyrtinaella causa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtinaellaPBDB
- 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 most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cyrtinaella causa 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cyrtinaella causa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtinaella causa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyrtinaella causa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
- Gypidula pseudogaleata2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Leptaenisca2 sites
- Levenea2 sites
- Megakozlowskiella2 sites
- Meristina2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Quadrithyris minuens2 sites
- Schizophoria (Eoschizophoria) parafragilis2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Strophonella bohemica2 sites
- Toquimaella kayi2 sites
- Aesopomum varistriatus1 site
- Atrypina simpsoni1 site
- Brachyprion1 site
- Brachyprion mirabilis1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camerella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cyrtinaella causa, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cyrtinaella causa 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 Cyrtinaella causa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtinaella causa 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 itCyrtinaella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1970