Cyrtodaria kurriana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtodariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hiatellidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Hiatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hiatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.
13 occurrences of Cyrtodaria kurriana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Miocene18%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene69%
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
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The named rock units Cyrtodaria kurriana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyrtodaria kurriana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cyrtodaria kurriana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Astarte2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus2 sites
- Annelida1 site
- Arctica islandica1 site
- Astarte (Tridonta)1 site
- Astarte borealis1 site
- Astarte montagui1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) karaginskiensis1 site
- Chlamys hastata1 site
- Chlamys nuwokensis1 site
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum1 site
- Crassicardia crassidens1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Diplodonta1 site
- Diplodonta aleutica1 site
- Fortipecten hallae1 site
- Laevicardium1 site
- Lunatia1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) golikovi1 site
- Macoma brota1 site
- Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria1 site
- Mya (Mya) truncata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cyrtodaria kurriana, 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
4 references- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland7
- Cenozoic Megafossils of Northern Alaska4
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland1
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 Cyrtodaria kurriana
- 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 Cyrtodaria kurriana 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunker 1861