Eocypraea

Eocypraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EocypraeinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 12.8 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 19 of 55 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 29 of 55 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 55 occurrencesMiocene96–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 7 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya13.82 Mya96 Mya11 Mya

55 occurrences of Eocypraea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

55 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

30 formations

San Juan — 16.59°N, 92.89°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WFaxe — 55.26°N, 12.13°EKøbenhavn — 55.57°N, 12.93°EStevns Klint — 57.00°N, 9.25°EDomengine — 35.93°N, 120.17°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WCrescent — 47.99°N, 123.14°WCrescent — 46.69°N, 123.27°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WHangu — 33.53°N, 71.06°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WGramame — 7.25°S, 34.80°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WPorters Creek — 32.13°N, 87.40°WKincaid — 29.16°N, 99.57°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WSepultura — 29.78°N, 115.53°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°E

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The named rock units Eocypraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eocypraea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eocypraea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,699 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Eocypraea, 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

34 references

Each of the 55 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. 22 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 Eocypraea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Eocypraea 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 itEocypraeinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1903)