Cypricardella
Searched as Cypricardella acadica. The Paleobiology Database treats Cypricardella as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassatellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cypricardella 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Murphy Road Formation · Windsor Group1
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The named rock units Cypricardella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cypricardella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cypricardella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,381 taxa- Crinoidea47 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)43 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus43 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta41 sites
- Camarotoechia40 sites
- Goniophora37 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus36 sites
- Palaeoneilo34 sites
- Productella32 sites
- Eoschizodus26 sites
- Fenestella24 sites
- Sphenotus24 sites
- Grammysia23 sites
- Mucrospirifer22 sites
- Paracyclas22 sites
- Nuculites21 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus20 sites
- Modiomorpha20 sites
- Spirifer20 sites
- Spinocyrtia granulosa19 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata18 sites
- Bellerophontoidea18 sites
- Bryozoa18 sites
- Chonetes18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 176 sites for Cypricardella, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cypricardella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cypricardella 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 itCrassatellinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1856)