Cypridopsis

Cypridopsis is a genus of ostracods, belonging to the family Cyprididae. The genus was described in 1867 by George Stewardson Brady and has cosmopolitan distribution.

Cypridopsis

S.E. Thorpe · CC0 · 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
CyprididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyprididae

Time the record covers

At least 318 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 14 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences318.6 Mya129 ka330 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Cypridopsis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

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

4 formations

Neuwieder Becken 5 — 50.43°N, 7.47°EAl Khums — 30.50°N, 13.50°EFort Crittenden — 31.67°N, 110.77°WHance — 36.57°N, 84.18°W

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The named rock units Cypridopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypridopsis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cypridopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

282 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cypridopsis, 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. 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 Cypridopsis

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

No 3D scan of Cypridopsis 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCyprididae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady 1868