Elliptocyprites

No picture of Elliptocyprites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elliptocyprites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461.1 Mya422.7 Mya469 Mya419 Mya

7 occurrences of Elliptocyprites on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

7 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

5 formations

Linxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EPozary — 49.95°N, 12.93°ESueve Shale — 43.47°N, 5.06°W

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The named rock units Elliptocyprites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Elliptocyprites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Elliptocyprites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Elliptocyprites, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Elliptocyprites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elliptocyprites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Elliptocyprites 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 itBairdiocyprididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.