Macrocypris

Macrocypris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacrocyprididaePBDB
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 376 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 67 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 25 of 67 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 67 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 67 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 67 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 67 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 67 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 67 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 67 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 67 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 67 occurrences396–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences382–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–343 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences343–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–290 Mya — about 7 occurrences290–277 Mya — about 4 occurrences277–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–251 Mya — about 20 occurrences237–224 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences382.31 Mya5.333 Mya396 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Macrocypris on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

67 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

24 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EQixia — 30.64°N, 110.75°EPamucak — 36.69°N, 30.46°ELares Limestone — 18.37°N, 67.00°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WCibao Marl — 18.38°N, 66.97°WElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WXuanwei — 25.95°N, 104.47°ELanchengquxia — 30.72°N, 80.70°EFeixianguan — 25.94°N, 104.50°EDvuyakornaya — 44.98°N, 35.37°EEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WGatun — 9.37°N, 79.85°WSevery Shale — 40.03°N, 96.03°WChase — 38.27°N, 96.73°WNeva — 39.18°N, 96.59°WStanton — 39.08°N, 94.93°WKanwaka — 37.12°N, 96.23°WHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°E

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The named rock units Macrocypris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrocypris and its relatives

Permian

Where Macrocypris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

791 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Macrocypris, 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

27 references

Each of the 67 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. 15 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 Macrocypris

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

No 3D scan of Macrocypris 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.