Bythocyproidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BufinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 7 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya388.7 Mya351.2 Mya

8 occurrences of Bythocyproidea on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

8 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

3 formations

Silica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°W

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The named rock units Bythocyproidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bythocyproidea and its relatives

Devonian

Where Bythocyproidea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bythocyproidea, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Bythocyproidea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bythocyproidea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itBufinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stewart and Hendrix 1945