Cryptocarpium
No picture of Cryptocarpium 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 Cryptocarpium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterocorythidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
221 occurrences of Cryptocarpium on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
221 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cryptocarpium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 209 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cryptocarpium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cryptocarpium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Theocyrtis126 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis109 sites
- Dictyoprora103 sites
- Dorcadospyris103 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Pentalacorys) triacantha98 sites
- Eusyringium92 sites
- Dictyoprora mongolfieri91 sites
- Tholospyris91 sites
- Lophocyrtis90 sites
- Lithocyclia88 sites
- Lychnocanoma80 sites
- Artophormis61 sites
- Calocycletta59 sites
- Calocyclas51 sites
- Lychnocanoma babylonis48 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) papalis43 sites
- Podocyrtis42 sites
- Zealithapium42 sites
- Rhopalocanium ornatum39 sites
- Spongatractus pachystylus35 sites
- Zygocircus32 sites
- Calocyclas hispida30 sites
- Lithelius30 sites
- Amphisphaera27 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 168 sites for Cryptocarpium, 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
9 references- Site U133361
- Site U133153
- Site U133233
- Site U133427
- Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand27
- Site U15076
- Site U15086
- Site U15094
- Site U15114
Each of the 221 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
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No picture of Cryptocarpium 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 Cryptocarpium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptocarpium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPterocorythidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sanfilippo and Riedel 1992