Zonocypris
Dr Ken G. McKenzie · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZonocyprididaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cypridoidea
Time the record covers
At least 62 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Zonocypris 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous40%
- Paleocene10%
- Pliocene32%
- Pleistocene18%
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
3 formations
- Tatrot Formation1
- Varswater Formation · Sandveld Group1
- Kalisindh Formation · Malwa Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Zonocypris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Alcelaphini1 site
- Altanicypris bhatiai1 site
- Antilopini1 site
- Bisulcocypris tumiensis1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Camelus sivalensis1 site
- Candona1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Chara1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Coelodonta1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Crustacea1 site
- Cypria1 site
- Cypria cyrtonidion1 site
- Cypridopsis elachistos1 site
- Deccansaurus palaeoindicus1 site
- Demelops palaeindicus1 site
- Elephas hysudricus1 site
- Elephas planifrons1 site
- Elephas platycephalus1 site
- Equus1 site
- Equus sivalensis1 site
- Eucypris intervolcanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Zonocypris, 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- Fossil lizards from the Deccan intertrappean beds (latest Cretaceous / earliest Paleocene) of lower Narmada basin, Malwa Plateau, India1
- Upper Cretaceous intertrappean non-marine Ostracoda from Mohagaonkala (Mohgaon-Kalan), Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh State, Central India1
- Taphonomy, fauna, environment and ecology of Upper Sivaliks (Plio-Pleistocene) near Chandigarh, India1
- A second assemblage of Pliocene invertebrate fossils from Langebaanweg, Cape1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Zonocypris
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Ken G. McKenzie
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zonocypris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZonocyprididae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1898