Palaeocopida

Palaeocopida is an order of ostracods in the subclass Podocopa. Most species in the suborder are extinct, and only the genera Manawa, Promanawa, and Puncia in the family Punciidae are extant. The members of the family live in high-energy shallow marine environments of New Zealand.

Palaeocopida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 389 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 7413 occurrencesOrdovician — about 3013 of 7413 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 988 of 7413 occurrencesDevonian — about 1117 of 7413 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 561 of 7413 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1593 of 7413 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 122 of 7413 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 7413 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 7413 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7413 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 7413 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 7413 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 7413 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 7413 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 7413 occurrences497–483 Mya — about 11 occurrences483–468 Mya — about 192 occurrences468–453 Mya — about 1620 occurrences453–439 Mya — about 1356 occurrences439–424 Mya — about 566 occurrences424–409 Mya — about 386 occurrences409–395 Mya — about 143 occurrences395–380 Mya — about 708 occurrences380–365 Mya — about 108 occurrences365–351 Mya — about 63 occurrences351–336 Mya — about 101 occurrences336–321 Mya — about 159 occurrences321–307 Mya — about 163 occurrences307–292 Mya — about 299 occurrences292–277 Mya — about 393 occurrences277–263 Mya — about 279 occurrences263–248 Mya — about 846 occurrences248–233 Mya — about 8 occurrences219–204 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences204–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–102 Mya — about 5 occurrences102–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482.9 Mya93.9 Mya497 Mya58 Mya

7,413 occurrences of Palaeocopida on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

7,413 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

606 formations

Silica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WChangxing — 29.91°N, 106.52°EChangxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 26.15°N, 105.29°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EChangxing — 31.79°N, 104.58°EChangxing — 31.59°N, 104.32°EHolmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.56°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.49°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.30°N, 92.12°EDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WMangazea — 63.00°N, 92.00°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 100.00°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.49°EMangazea — 62.15°N, 91.43°EMangazea — 62.30°N, 92.12°EMangazea — 62.22°N, 102.13°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EQixia — 31.63°N, 117.96°EQixia — 30.64°N, 110.75°EMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 78.85°WMoscow — 42.87°N, 78.83°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.45°WMoscow — 43.00°N, 78.30°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 15.00°EDalby — 61.00°N, 15.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 14.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 12.00°EAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 38.05°N, 116.45°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.60°N, 116.26°WAntelope Valley — 38.28°N, 116.42°WAntelope Valley — 38.82°N, 116.50°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.40°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.43°N, 97.19°WKhuff — 21.04°N, 57.69°EKhuff — 19.95°N, 57.36°ECummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°ETak Fa — 15.83°N, 100.93°ETak Fa — 15.90°N, 100.89°ETak Fa — 15.97°N, 100.87°ETak Fa — 15.34°N, 100.60°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°ETak Fa — 15.38°N, 100.59°ETak Fa — 15.19°N, 101.52°EWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WWhittaker — 62.50°N, 125.25°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEsbataottine — 62.52°N, 124.78°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°E

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The named rock units Palaeocopida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 582 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 664 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeocopida and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Palaeocopida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 492 sites for Palaeocopida, and this reads 240 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

424 references

Each of the 7,413 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. 412 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 Palaeocopida

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Palaeocopida 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itPodocopa through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henningsmoen 1953