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Cyrtonellopsis ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | genus (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Tergomya : Cyrtonellida : Cyrtolitidae : Cyrtonellopsis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 485 - 478 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 461 - 450 Ma Ordovician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | slow-moving (based on Cyrtonellida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | blind (based on Tergomya) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | grazer (based on Cyrtonellida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. L. Yochelson. 1958. Some Lower Ordovician monoplacophoran mollusks from Missouri. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 48(1):8-14 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Cyrtonellopsis huzzahensis ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 485 Ma Cambrian | |
Cyrtonellopsis vetulum ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 3 | 461 Ma Middle Ordovician | 461 Ma Middle Ordovician |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1958 | Cyrtonellopsis Yochelson |
1960 | Cyrtonellopsis Knight and Yochelson p. 80 |
1970 | Cyrtonellopsis Starobogatov p. 300 |
1976 | Cyrtonellopsis Runnegar and Jell p. 118 |
2002 | Cyrtonellopsis Sepkoski, Jr. |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!