Eupera

Eupera is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Sphaeriidae.

Eupera

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · 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
EuperinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Sphaeriidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.246 Mya – 5.333 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Eupera on record. 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

6 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

2 formations

Solimões — 6.50°S, 69.67°WPebas — 4.17°S, 72.38°W

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The named rock units Eupera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eupera, 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 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Eupera

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eupera 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 itEuperinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bourguignat 1854