Epicyprina

Epicyprina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 19 of 19 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121.4 Mya106.3 Mya126.3 Mya100 Mya

19 occurrences of Epicyprina on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

19 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

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.68°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.89°N, 6.48°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.97°N, 6.44°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.20°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°W

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The named rock units Epicyprina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epicyprina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Epicyprina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Epicyprina, 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

6 references

Each of the 19 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 Epicyprina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Epicyprina 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 itArcticidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1952