Apiocypraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EocypraeinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 26 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–2.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.6–716 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence37.71 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya716 ka

26 occurrences of Apiocypraea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

26 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

9 formations

Gheldeis — 9.23°N, 50.67°EGheldeis — 9.50°N, 50.63°EGheldeis — 9.75°N, 50.78°EGheldeis — 9.32°N, 50.40°EGheldeis — 7.87°N, 49.80°EGheldeis — 8.43°N, 49.05°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 28.00°N, 66.00°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ECarnide Sandston — 39.92°N, 8.72°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WSabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°E

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The named rock units Apiocypraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apiocypraea and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Apiocypraea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

832 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Apiocypraea, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Apiocypraea 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 Apiocypraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Apiocypraea 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 itEocypraeinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schilder 1927)