Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus

Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CyrtospiriferPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesDevonian382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.8 Mya371.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

7 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

1 formation

  • Refrath FormationNordrhein-Westfalen, North Rhine Westphalia · DE · 382.31–372.15 Mya7
Refrath — 50.97°N, 7.12°E

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

Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyrtospirifer cuspidatus 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 itCyrtospirifer through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Archiac and de Verneuil 1842)