Cyrtospira tortilis
No picture of Cyrtospira tortilis 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 Cyrtospira tortilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtospiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Subulitidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Subulitidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Subulitidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cyrtospira tortilis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cyrtospira tortilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtospira tortilis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyrtospira tortilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Campylorthis deflecta1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Cyclonema praecipitum1 site
- Ectomaria prisca1 site
- Eotomaria canalifera1 site
- Eotomaria labiosa1 site
- Eunema centralis1 site
- Gonioceras1 site
- Helicotoma declivis1 site
- Helicotoma subquadrata1 site
- Helicotoma tennesseensis1 site
- Hesperorthis tricenaria1 site
- Leperditia1 site
- Liospira americana1 site
- Liospira decipens1 site
- Liospira progne1 site
- Liospira subconcava1 site
- Lophospira milleri1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Loxobucania emmonsi1 site
- Maclurites magnus1 site
- Maclurites nitidus1 site
- Modiolopsis1 site
- Nicholsonella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyrtospira tortilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Cyrtospira tortilis 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 Cyrtospira tortilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtospira tortilis 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 itCyrtospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897