Syncyclonema

Syncyclonema

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SyncyclonematinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Entoliidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 135 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 444 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 444 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 444 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 444 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 444 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 30 of 444 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 408 of 444 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 444 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 14 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 13 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 24 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–76 Mya — about 21 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 115 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 231 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences201.4 Mya66 Mya241 Mya58 Mya

444 occurrences of Syncyclonema on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

444 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

53 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.76°N, 96.28°WCorsicana Marl — 32.19°N, 96.30°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.38°N, 97.49°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.28°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.57°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.42°N, 98.43°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.18°N, 99.02°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.03°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.02°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPeedee — 34.04°N, 79.80°WPeedee — 33.91°N, 79.45°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WLadd — 33.70°N, 117.60°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.04°N, 88.93°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.69°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.62°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.64°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.82°N, 8.15°EAhlen — 51.77°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.95°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.95°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EMaastricht — 50.87°N, 5.77°EMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.16°N, 99.48°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.48°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.65°Wmarly chalk — 51.28°N, 21.90°Emarly chalk — 51.22°N, 21.43°EKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°ERipley — 31.79°N, 85.13°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°E

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The named rock units Syncyclonema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Syncyclonema and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Syncyclonema and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

864 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 368 sites for Syncyclonema, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

54 references

Each of the 444 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. 42 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Syncyclonema

Source
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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Syncyclonema 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 itSyncyclonematinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864