Cyrtodonta wattii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyrtodontaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473.8 Mya469.4 Mya477.6 Mya457.7 Mya

13 occurrences of Cyrtodonta wattii 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

13 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

2 formations

Stairway — 24.95°S, 132.44°EStairway — 24.52°S, 132.15°EStairway — 24.41°S, 132.17°EStairway — 24.90°S, 132.42°EStairway — 25.03°S, 133.29°EStairway — 24.27°S, 131.93°EStairway — 24.55°S, 131.74°EStairway — 25.07°S, 131.92°EStairway — 23.74°S, 131.69°EStairway — 23.91°S, 131.82°EStairway — 24.90°S, 134.80°EOgof Hen — 51.82°N, 4.37°W

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The named rock units Cyrtodonta wattii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyrtodonta wattii and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyrtodonta wattii and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cyrtodonta wattii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cyrtodonta wattii was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata 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 Cyrtodonta wattii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyrtodonta wattii 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 itCyrtodonta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tate 1896)