Cyperacites

Searched as Cyperites. The Paleobiology Database treats Cyperacites as the accepted name.

No picture of Cyperacites 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 Cyperacites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyperaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 320 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 774 ka.

Devonian — about 0 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 13 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 36 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 36 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 36 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 36 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 5 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences323.4 Mya2.58 Mya366 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Cyperacites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

36 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

20 formations

Sepulcher — 44.00°N, 110.00°WSanmen — 37.75°N, 112.50°ESanmen — 34.92°N, 111.25°EKettle River — 49.05°N, 118.91°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°EGolden Valley — 45.50°N, 103.25°WHonaker Trail — 38.57°N, 109.55°WMahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.61°WSurprise Canyon — 35.93°N, 113.29°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.53°N, 2.51°WOgallala — 39.04°N, 101.75°WBangmai — 23.90°N, 100.02°EMenshi — 32.17°N, 79.97°EShulan — 44.33°N, 127.00°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EWulong — 30.09°N, 89.54°EFarrington — 51.30°N, 2.43°WGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°EShanxi — 36.37°N, 113.28°E

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The named rock units Cyperacites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyperacites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyperacites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

420 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cyperacites, 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

25 references

Each of the 36 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Cyperacites 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 Cyperacites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyperacites 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 itCyperaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1855