Cyrtolites

Cyrtolites is an extinct genus of monoplacophorans in the family Cyrtolitidae.Names brought to synonymy Cyrtolites elegans S.A. Miller 1874, a synonym for Phragmolites elegans

Cyrtolites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyrtolitidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 473.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 151 of 166 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 166 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 166 occurrencesDevonian475–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 18 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 30 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 54 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 29 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 14 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–428 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence471.3 Mya387.95 Mya475 Mya380 Mya

166 occurrences of Cyrtolites 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

166 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

62 formations

Lexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.91°N, 84.26°WLexington Limestone — 37.78°N, 84.72°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.87°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.31°WLexington Limestone — 38.39°N, 84.54°WLexington Limestone — 38.15°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 37.75°N, 84.77°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WClays Ferry — 38.36°N, 84.36°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WClays Ferry — 38.33°N, 84.31°WClays Ferry — 38.39°N, 84.54°WLexington — 38.17°N, 84.83°WLexington — 38.19°N, 84.56°WLexington — 38.04°N, 84.84°WLexington — 37.79°N, 84.50°WLexington — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington — 37.98°N, 84.69°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 38.80°N, 84.16°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.53°WKope — 39.09°N, 84.50°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 49.97°N, 14.17°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.33°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°ELorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLorraine — 45.79°N, 72.86°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WLorraine — 43.70°N, 79.51°WLorraine — 45.97°N, 81.93°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WMaquoketa — 42.01°N, 91.64°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.93°WVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°ESkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.00°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.49°WDecorah — 43.84°N, 92.19°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°W

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The named rock units Cyrtolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyrtolites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyrtolites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,410 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 150 sites for Cyrtolites, 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

40 references

Each of the 166 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Cyrtolites

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cyrtolites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Conrad 1838)