Bythocypris cylindrica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BythocyprisPBDB
- 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 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
23 occurrences of Bythocypris cylindrica on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
23 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
16 formations
- Kagawong Formation3
- Lorraine Formation3
- Bromide Formation2
- Kope Formation · Eden Group2
- Dolgeville Facies Formation · Trenton Group1
- Arnheim Formation1
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The named rock units Bythocypris cylindrica 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.
Bythocypris cylindrica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bythocypris cylindrica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
380 taxa- Aparchites11 sites
- Primitia7 sites
- Primitiella7 sites
- Dicranella6 sites
- Bollia5 sites
- Eurychilina5 sites
- Laccoprimitia centralis5 sites
- Ulrichia5 sites
- Byssonychia radiata4 sites
- Ctenobolbina4 sites
- Ctenobolbina ciliata4 sites
- Krausella4 sites
- Leperditia caecigena4 sites
- Punctaparchites rugosus4 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata4 sites
- Calymene3 sites
- Cryptophyllus3 sites
- Ctenodonta3 sites
- Cyrtodonta3 sites
- Geisonoceras3 sites
- Halliella3 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Isotelus gigas3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Bythocypris cylindrica, 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
9 references- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec9
- Bibliographic Index of Paleozoic Ostracoda4
- Biostratigraphic and paleontological studies2
- Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (Middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State2
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island2
- A Middle Ordovician fauna from Braeside, Ottawa Valley, Ontario1
- Subsurface Ordovician fuana, Anticosti Island, Quebec1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan1
Each of the 23 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 Bythocypris cylindrica
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bythocypris cylindrica 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 itBythocypris through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1871)