Cypraeorbis splendens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CypraeorbisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cypraeorbis splendens on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Cypraeorbis splendens and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cypraeorbis splendens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Akera1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Ampullinopsis1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cerithium calculosum1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Conus diversiformis1 site
- Cryptoconus1 site
- Diastoma costellatum1 site
- Divalinga1 site
- Glycymeris pulvinata1 site
- Loxocardium1 site
- Spondylus1 site
- Tectus lucasianus1 site
- Tympanotonos stroppus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cypraeorbis splendens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Cypraeorbis splendens
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cypraeorbis splendens 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCypraeorbis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grateloup 1840)