Cyrtopleura levesquei

Cyrtopleura levesquei

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya48.07 Mya66.5 Mya40.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Cyrtopleura levesquei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

5 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

3 formations

London Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°W

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

Cyrtopleura levesquei and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cyrtopleura levesquei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyrtopleura levesquei, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Cyrtopleura levesquei

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyrtopleura levesquei 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 itCyrtopleura through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Watelet 1851)