Cupuladria biporosa

Cupuladria biporosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupuladriaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cupuladriidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cupuladriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cupuladriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 11 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 41 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 41 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.246 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Cupuladria biporosa on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

41 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

Cayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.93°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.07°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WRed Bay — 30.59°N, 85.94°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WYellow River — 30.63°N, 86.17°W

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

Cupuladria biporosa and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Cupuladria biporosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cupuladria biporosa, 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

4 references

Each of the 41 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

Media content1

Picture of Cupuladria biporosa

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cupuladria biporosa 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 itCupuladria through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1923