Paracyrtolites subplanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacyrtolitesPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Cyrtonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tergomya
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paracyrtolites subplanus 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
4 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Paracyrtolites subplanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracyrtolites subplanus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paracyrtolites subplanus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Carinaropsis cymbula2 sites
- Cyrtolites retrorsus2 sites
- Archinacella pulaskiensis1 site
- Byssonychia radiata1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Catazyga headi1 site
- Clidophorus brevi1 site
- Clidophorus planulatus1 site
- Clionychia curta1 site
- Colpomya constricta1 site
- Colpomya faba1 site
- Cryptolithus tessellatus1 site
- Ctenodonta hyacinthensis1 site
- Leptaena moniquensis1 site
- Lingulasma hyacinthensis1 site
- Liospira micula1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Loxoplocus hyacinthensis1 site
- Lyrodesma poststriatum1 site
- Modiolopsis hyacinthensis1 site
- Paracyrtolites parvus1 site
- Paupospira oweni1 site
- Rostricellula minuta1 site
- Triarthrus eatoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paracyrtolites subplanus, 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- Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region2
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec2
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paracyrtolites subplanus 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 Paracyrtolites subplanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracyrtolites subplanus 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 itParacyrtolites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)