Cyrtospira ventricosus
No picture of Cyrtospira ventricosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 ventricosus, 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 least 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cyrtospira ventricosus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cyrtospira ventricosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyrtospira ventricosus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyrtospira ventricosus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Oriostoma globosum4 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus3 sites
- Pycnomphalus obesus3 sites
- Arctinurus2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Codonocheilus striatum2 sites
- Coelocaulus longispira2 sites
- Coelocaulus turritiformis2 sites
- Conotoma bispiralis2 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus2 sites
- Isfarispira perlata2 sites
- Loxoplocus soluta2 sites
- Pachystrophia inornatum2 sites
- Prosolarium halei2 sites
- Ptychocaulus bivittata2 sites
- Subulites compactus2 sites
- Tremanotus angustata2 sites
- Acervularia1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Algae1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Archaefenestella mobergi1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Aulopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyrtospira ventricosus, 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- Revision of the fauna of the Guelph formation of Ontario, with descriptions of a few new species2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland1
Each of the 4 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. 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
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No picture of Cyrtospira ventricosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 ventricosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtospira ventricosus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyrtospira through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1852)