Cypricardia

Cypricardia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrapezidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 261 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 14 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences272–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences245–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–200 Mya — about 4 occurrences200–191 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences191–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–127 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence264.28 Mya2.58 Mya272 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Cypricardia on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

14 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

8 formations

Dakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EAurora Limestone — 26.42°N, 103.25°WWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EGerringong — 34.50°S, 150.85°EEsna — 25.44°N, 32.36°ECapas Rojas — 40.61°N, 0.13°WKossen — 47.53°N, 11.09°EJena — 52.47°N, 13.78°E

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The named rock units Cypricardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypricardia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cypricardia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cypricardia, 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

12 references

Each of the 14 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 Cypricardia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-SA
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTrapezidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1819