Cypridoidea

Cypridoidea is a superfamily of ostracods in the suborder Cypridocopina.

Cypridoidea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 449 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 855 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 855 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 855 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 15 of 855 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 19 of 855 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 71 of 855 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 72 of 855 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 29 of 855 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 72 of 855 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 43 of 855 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 15 of 855 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 91 of 855 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 96 of 855 occurrencesPaleocene — about 60 of 855 occurrencesEocene — about 43 of 855 occurrencesOligocene — about 44 of 855 occurrencesMiocene — about 78 of 855 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 855 occurrencesPleistocene — about 91 of 855 occurrences460–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences368–352 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–322 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences322–306 Mya — about 5 occurrences306–291 Mya — about 12 occurrences291–276 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences276–260 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences260–245 Mya — about 119 occurrences245–230 Mya — about 47 occurrences230–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–199 Mya — about 21 occurrences199–184 Mya — about 33 occurrences184–168 Mya — about 65 occurrences168–153 Mya — about 21 occurrences153–138 Mya — about 24 occurrences138–123 Mya — about 29 occurrences123–107 Mya — about 34 occurrences107–92 Mya — about 25 occurrences92–77 Mya — about 24 occurrences77–61 Mya — about 103 occurrences61–46 Mya — about 32 occurrences46–31 Mya — about 43 occurrences31–15 Mya — about 44 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 165 occurrences449.5 Mya11.7 ka460 Mya0 Mya

855 occurrences of Cypridoidea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

855 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

165 formations

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EZafir — 32.14°N, 34.98°EJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WMarelb — 45.07°N, 28.78°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.90°WYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°EKokarkuyu — 36.69°N, 30.46°EQom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EEl Collado — 40.59°N, 2.07°WKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.85°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EDaye — 25.57°N, 106.66°EAllen — 40.03°S, 66.82°WAllen — 37.50°S, 69.00°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 38.96°S, 67.59°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.70°WElikah — 36.22°N, 51.35°EElikah — 39.01°N, 45.43°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ERenova — 44.85°N, 113.06°WRenova — 45.00°N, 113.07°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WShahai — 41.81°N, 121.99°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°ESerra da Galga — 19.63°S, 47.45°WSerra da Galga — 19.63°S, 47.23°WLuolou — 24.58°N, 106.89°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°EKcynia — 52.37°N, 19.34°ECalcaires marneux du Santonien — 33.10°N, 5.30°WBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°E

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The named rock units Cypridoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 141 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 222 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypridoidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cypridoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,567 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 510 sites for Cypridoidea, and this reads 240 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

209 references

Each of the 855 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. 197 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 Cypridoidea

Credit
S.E. Thorpe
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cypridoidea 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird 1845