Cyrtostropha macrospira
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtostrophaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
7 occurrences of Cyrtostropha macrospira 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
7 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cyrtostropha macrospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyrtostropha macrospira and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyrtostropha macrospira and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Tremanotus angustata4 sites
- Coelocaulus longispira3 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus3 sites
- Loxoplocus soluta3 sites
- Michelia whiteavesi3 sites
- Ptychocaulus bivittata3 sites
- Pycnomphalus obesus3 sites
- Codonocheilus striatum2 sites
- Coelocaulus turritiformis2 sites
- Euomphalopterus valeria2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Kirkospira vitellia2 sites
- Pachystrophia inornatum2 sites
- Spiroraphe galtensis2 sites
- Amphistrophia1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Bellerophon shelbiensis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Blastozoa1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Conotoma bispiralis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyrtostropha macrospira, 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- Guelph fauna in the state of New York2
- On some new, imperfectly characterized or previously unrecorded species of fossils from the Guelph Formations of Ontario2
- Palaeozoic fossils from a region southwest of Hudson Bay1
- Revision of the fauna of the Guelph formation of Ontario, with descriptions of a few new species1
- Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower middle division of the New York system1
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. 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 Cyrtostropha macrospira 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 Cyrtostropha macrospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyrtostropha macrospira was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCyrtostropha through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1852)