Syncyclonema operculiformis

Syncyclonema operculiformis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences121.4 Mya93.9 Mya133.5 Mya88.9 Mya

23 occurrences of Syncyclonema operculiformis 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

23 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

2 formations

Ladd — 33.70°N, 117.60°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.69°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.62°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.64°W

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The named rock units Syncyclonema operculiformis 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.

Syncyclonema operculiformis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Syncyclonema operculiformis, 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

Each of the 23 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

Media content1

Picture of Syncyclonema operculiformis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSyncyclonema through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)