Plesiocypridopsis newtoni
No picture of Plesiocypridopsis newtoni was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plesiocypridopsis newtoni firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Plesiocypridopsis newtoni on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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
- Koobi Fora Formation4
- Nachukui Formation · Omo Group1
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The named rock units Plesiocypridopsis newtoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plesiocypridopsis newtoni and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Plesiocypridopsis newtoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Ilyocypris gibba5 sites
- Cyprideis4 sites
- Darwinula stevensoni4 sites
- Hemicypris sp.4 sites
- Limnocythere4 sites
- Sclerocypris clavularis4 sites
- Cypris3 sites
- Dasyatis africana3 sites
- Gomphocythere3 sites
- Hydrocynus3 sites
- Synodontis3 sites
- Barbus2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Gerontochoerus scotti2 sites
- Hippopotamus gorgops2 sites
- Hippopotamus karumensis2 sites
- Hominidae2 sites
- Homo erectus2 sites
- Hyperopsius sp.2 sites
- Kobus sigmoidalis2 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes2 sites
- Labeo sp.2 sites
- Sindacharax sp.2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plesiocypridopsis newtoni, 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- Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae2
- Paleoenvironments of the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya1
- K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Plesiocypridopsis newtoni was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plesiocypridopsis newtoni firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Plesiocypridopsis newtoni 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.