Cyrtinopsis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtinopsinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 383.4 Mya.
13 occurrences of Cyrtinopsis 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
13 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
10 formations
- Shanda Horizon Formation2
- Lochkov Formation1
- Kotys Limestone Formation1
- Lochkow Formation1
- Belovo Horizon Formation1
- Selscheid Formation1
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The named rock units Cyrtinopsis 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.
Cyrtinopsis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyrtinopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
260 taxa- Atrypa5 sites
- Belodella4 sites
- Dalejina4 sites
- Icriodus4 sites
- Barbaestrophia3 sites
- Chlupacina3 sites
- Douvillina3 sites
- Gypidula pelagica3 sites
- Hanaites3 sites
- Hebetoechia3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Ivanothyris3 sites
- Lanceomyonia confinis3 sites
- Leptostrophia3 sites
- Microcheilinella3 sites
- Miraculum3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Panderodus3 sites
- Pandorinellina3 sites
- Polygnathus3 sites
- Praepilatina3 sites
- Protodouvillina3 sites
- Sieberella3 sites
- Spinatrypa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cyrtinopsis, 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
11 references- Facies and faunal associations of the Telengitian (Emsian) in its type locality3
- New Data on the Middle Devonian Biostratigraphy of the Salair, Southwestern Siberia1
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Zur Fossilführung des Ohler Schiefers (Devon: Eifelium) im West-Sauerland (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Fossils of the Ohler Schiefer (Devonian, Eifelian) in the western Sauerland (Eastern Rhenish Massif)]1
- Unterdevonische Brachiopoden aus dem hellen Crinoidenschutt- und Riffkalk der Seewarte (zentrale Karnische Alpen/Kärnten/Österreich)1
- Pervye nakhodki dakriokonarid v devonskikh otlozheniyakh yuzhnoy Mongolii (Gobiyskiy Altay, Vostochnaya Gobi). The first finds of Dakriokonaridae in the devonian deposits of the south Mongolia (Gobi Altai, East Gobi).1
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages1
- Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]1
- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]1
- Barrandian1
- The fauna of the Baton River Beds (Devonian), New Zealand1
Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Cyrtinopsis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyrtinopsis 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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What may have been alongside itCyrtinopsinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.