Cyrtorostra varicostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtorostraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
67 occurrences of Cyrtorostra varicostata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
67 occurrences- Permian100%
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
12 formations
- Park City Formation23
- Road Canyon Formation15
- Word Formation8
- Cathedral Mountain Formation7
- Shedhorn Formation4
- Phosphoria Formation3
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The named rock units Cyrtorostra varicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtorostra varicostata and its relatives
PermianWhere Cyrtorostra varicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,036 taxa- Girtypecten sublaqueatus22 sites
- Meekella calathica22 sites
- Megousia auriculata22 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys21 sites
- Annuliconcha dentata20 sites
- Eocamptonectes papillatus20 sites
- Prospondylus acinetus20 sites
- Acanthopecten coloradoensis19 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus19 sites
- Derbyia laqueata18 sites
- Dielasma18 sites
- Echinauris18 sites
- Hustedia18 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa18 sites
- Derbyia17 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata17 sites
- Composita16 sites
- Streblopteria montpelierensis16 sites
- Echinauris irregularis15 sites
- Heteropecten vanvleeti14 sites
- Schematochiton arthurcooperi14 sites
- Texarina wordensis14 sites
- Derbyia informis13 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Cyrtorostra varicostata, 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
5 references- Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis37
- Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies16
- Biostratigraphy of the Phosphoria, Park City, and Shedhorn Formations; Geology of Permian Rocks in the Western Phosphate Field8
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Phosphoria Formation5
- Gasterópodos y bivalvos cisuralianos (Pérmico inferior) de Otlamalacatla, Hidalgo, México1
Each of the 67 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 Cyrtorostra varicostata 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 Cyrtorostra varicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtorostra varicostata 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 itCyrtorostra through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson 1930