Cyrtopleura

Cyrtopleura is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pholadidae.

Cyrtopleura

MerlinCharon · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholadidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadidae
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Pholadidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pholadidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 29 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 29 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Cyrtopleura on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

29 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

17 formations

Michoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.28°WTalbot — 38.26°N, 76.42°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WPeace River — 27.18°N, 81.80°WFlanner Beach — 35.06°N, 76.87°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WChuy — 33.95°S, 58.33°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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The named rock units Cyrtopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyrtopleura and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cyrtopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Cyrtopleura, 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

20 references

Each of the 29 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Cyrtopleura

Credit
MerlinCharon
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itPholadidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tryon 1862