Cyrtodontula compressa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtodontulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontula
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.8 Mya to 448.8 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cyrtodontula compressa 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Tretaspis Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Cyrtodontula compressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtodontula compressa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyrtodontula compressa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Achatella achates1 site
- Alaskadiscus disculus1 site
- Ambonychinia amygdalina1 site
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Bucania halli1 site
- Campylorthis deflecta1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Ctenodonta logani1 site
- Ctenodonta madisonensis1 site
- Ctenodonta nasuta1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cyclonema gracile1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri1 site
- Dalmanella whittakeri1 site
- Dekayella1 site
- Dinorthis1 site
- Dinorthis pectinella1 site
- Eotomaria1 site
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria1 site
- Hormotoma gracilis1 site
- Hormotoma simplex1 site
- Linsleyella spinosa1 site
- Liospira micula1 site
- Liospira progne1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cyrtodontula compressa, 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
2 references- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway: 11, Pelecypoda1
Each 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. 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 content0
No picture of Cyrtodontula compressa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cyrtodontula compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtodontula compressa 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 itCyrtodontula through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich 1890)