Cypridea

Cypridea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyprideidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cypridoidea

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 54 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 54 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 39 of 54 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 54 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 5 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 6 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 11 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 4 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165.3 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

54 occurrences of Cypridea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

54 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

22 formations

El Collado — 40.59°N, 2.07°WShahai — 41.81°N, 121.99°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EGurvan-Eren — 46.36°N, 94.09°EKcynia — 52.37°N, 19.34°ELa Huérguina — 40.12°N, 1.97°WLa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°WRogozno — 51.98°N, 19.02°ENorth Horn — 39.27°N, 111.25°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WFuxin — 42.37°N, 122.52°EBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WLourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°WXiagou — 39.86°N, 96.78°EUlansuhai — 41.29°N, 103.88°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WDurlston — 50.61°N, 2.01°WHonglishan — 45.59°N, 87.83°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WVillaro — 43.12°N, 2.77°WPrince Creek — 70.07°N, 151.58°WMdaouer — 32.85°N, 1.27°WGuantou — 28.26°N, 119.66°E

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The named rock units Cypridea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypridea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cypridea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

469 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Cypridea, 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

26 references

Each of the 54 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Cypridea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cypridea 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.

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What may have been alongside itCyprideidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bosquet 1852