Procyprina

No picture of Procyprina 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 Procyprina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 14 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya145.06 Mya165.8 Mya142.6 Mya

15 occurrences of Procyprina 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

15 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

Shuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°W

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The named rock units Procyprina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Procyprina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 15 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 Procyprina 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 Procyprina, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1952