Apiocypraea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EocypraeinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
26 occurrences of Apiocypraea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
26 occurrences- Eocene4%
- Oligocene42%
- Miocene15%
- Pliocene35%
- Pleistocene4%
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
9 formations
- Gheldeis Formation · Hafún Group6
- Nari Formation3
- Upper Cyrena Formation1
- Alzey Formation1
- Werder Formation1
- Carnide Sandston Formation1
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The named rock units Apiocypraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apiocypraea and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Apiocypraea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
832 taxa- Calyptraea chinensis5 sites
- Pseudotorinia4 sites
- Sassia4 sites
- Thericium4 sites
- Alvania3 sites
- Aporrhais3 sites
- Aporrhais uttingeriana3 sites
- Cerithiopsis3 sites
- Clavatula3 sites
- Crepidula (Janacus) crepidula3 sites
- Cypraecassis3 sites
- Echinophoria3 sites
- Galeodea3 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum3 sites
- Ocinebrina3 sites
- Persististrombus coronatus3 sites
- Petaloconchus intortus3 sites
- Sinum (Sinum)3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Xenophora3 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa)2 sites
- Amalda glandiformis2 sites
- Amalda obsoleta2 sites
- Aneurystoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Apiocypraea, 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- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)6
- The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 3: Trivioidea, Cypraeoidea4
- La Malacofauna Plio-Pleistocenica del Torrente Stirone Parte IX. Strombidae, Aporrhaiidae, Calyptreidae, Capulidae, Xenophoridae, Vermetidae, Cypraeidae, Eocypraeidae, Triviidae, Eratoidae, Ovulidae, Naticidae3
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique3
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata2
- Pliocene Atlantic molluscan assemblages from the Mondego Basin (Portugal): Age and palaeoceanographic implications1
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Die Alzey-Formation der klassichen Lokalitat Wlschberg bei Waldbockelheim (Rupelium, Oligozan, Mainzer Becken) - Ergebnisse neuer Grabungen1
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part II1
- Oligo-Miocene bivalves and gastropods from Kirthar Province, lower Indus Basin, Pakistan1
- Mollusc fauna of the Hungarian Upper Oligocene (Egerian)1
- Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba1
Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Apiocypraea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Apiocypraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apiocypraea 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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What may have been alongside itEocypraeinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schilder 1927)