Cypridinella

Cypridinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypridinellidaePBDB
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 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPermian341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences330.3 Mya266.9 Mya341 Mya263 Mya

5 occurrences of Cypridinella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

5 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

1 formation

Cracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°W

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The named rock units Cypridinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypridinella and its relatives

Permian

Where Cypridinella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cypridinella, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Cypridinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cypridinella 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 itCypridinellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.