Lycopterocypris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypridinaePBDB
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 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya72.2 Mya138 Mya65 Mya

3 occurrences of Lycopterocypris 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

3 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

Shahai — 41.81°N, 121.99°ESerra da Galga — 19.63°S, 47.23°W

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The named rock units Lycopterocypris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycopterocypris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lycopterocypris, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Lycopterocypris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCypridinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.