Cuparius cardilatus
No picture of Cuparius cardilatus 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 Cuparius cardilatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CupariusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cuparius cardilatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
- Karasa Formation1
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The named rock units Cuparius cardilatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cuparius cardilatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cuparius cardilatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Trinodus2 sites
- Amplexograptus1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Archaeorthis altaica1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Atractopyge1 site
- Baltograptus deflexus1 site
- Bellimurina concentrica1 site
- Beloviella sp.1 site
- Calpytaulax sp.1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Carolines sp.1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Carolinites killaryensis1 site
- Ceratopea lemonei1 site
- Ceraurinella1 site
- Christiania subquadrata1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Cryptograptus tricornis1 site
- Cyrtonotella1 site
- Dimeropyge1 site
- Ellaenus sp.1 site
- Encrinuroides1 site
- Endymionia meeki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cuparius cardilatus, 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
2 references- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Fossils from the Ordovician bioherm at Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada1
Each of the 2 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 Cuparius cardilatus 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 Cuparius cardilatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cuparius cardilatus 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 itCuparius through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ross 1971)