Propontocypris

Propontocypris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PontocyprididaePBDB
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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Propontocypris on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

28 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

8 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WLares Limestone — 18.37°N, 67.00°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.48°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.35°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°ERoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°W

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The named rock units Propontocypris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Propontocypris and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Propontocypris and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

666 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Propontocypris, 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

13 references

Each of the 28 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. 1 further reference is 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 Propontocypris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Propontocypris 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 itPontocyprididae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.