Cryptoplocus

Cryptoplocus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterostrophiaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 8 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya121.4 Mya166 Mya112 Mya

10 occurrences of Cryptoplocus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

10 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

4 formations

Ernstbrunn — 48.55°N, 16.35°EOta Limestone — 39.07°N, 9.00°WTuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°EReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°E

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The named rock units Cryptoplocus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptoplocus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cryptoplocus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cryptoplocus, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Cryptoplocus

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

No 3D scan of Cryptoplocus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHeterostrophia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.