Potamocypris producta
No picture of Potamocypris producta was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Potamocypris producta 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 least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Potamocypris producta 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene33%
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
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The named rock units Potamocypris producta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Cypris2 sites
- Darwinula stevensoni2 sites
- Gomphocythere2 sites
- Hemicypris sp.2 sites
- Ilyocypris gibba2 sites
- Adenota recki1 site
- Aepyceros melampus1 site
- Barbus1 site
- Connochaetes gentryi1 site
- Cyprideis1 site
- Dasyatis africana1 site
- Distichodus1 site
- Equus1 site
- Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi1 site
- Equus tabeti1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Gazella praethomsoni1 site
- Gymnarchus1 site
- Hexaprotodon aethiopicus1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Hippopotamus gorgops1 site
- Hippopotamus karumensis1 site
- Hominidae1 site
- Homo erectus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Potamocypris producta, 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- Paleoenvironments of the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya1
- K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya1
- Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae1
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. 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.
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No picture of Potamocypris producta was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Potamocypris producta 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 Potamocypris producta 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.
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.