Cypridina

Cypridina

E Ray Lankester · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypridinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Myodocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Myodocopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 371 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 27 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 27 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 27 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences441–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–413 Mya — about 4 occurrences413–400 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences400–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–345 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences345–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–263 Mya — about 5 occurrences263–249 Mya — about 5 occurrences249–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–194 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences181–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–139 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences139–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences419.62 Mya48.07 Mya441 Mya30 Mya

27 occurrences of Cypridina on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

27 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

9 formations

Naujoji Akmené — 54.67°N, 24.17°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.78°N, 21.83°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EUzum Bair — 45.07°N, 28.78°EMarmari — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.30°N, 23.37°EDvuyakornaya — 44.98°N, 35.37°EWaverly Sandstone — 41.24°N, 81.64°WRecoaro — 44.17°N, 18.46°E

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The named rock units Cypridina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypridina and its relatives

Permian

Where Cypridina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cypridina, 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

13 references

Each of the 27 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. 1 further reference is 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 Cypridina

Credit
E Ray Lankester
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cypridina 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 itCypridinidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1840