Cryptobairdia seminalis

No picture of Cryptobairdia seminalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cryptobairdia seminalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Bairdia (Cryptobairdia)PBDB
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 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 28 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 36 occurrencesPermian314–312 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 6 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 6 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 5 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 1 occurrence297–295 Mya — about 1 occurrence295–294 Mya — about 1 occurrence294–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306 Mya266.9 Mya314 Mya263 Mya

36 occurrences of Cryptobairdia seminalis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

36 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

18 formations

Henrietta — 38.59°N, 90.25°WHenrietta — 38.82°N, 90.37°WHenrietta — 38.65°N, 90.37°WHenrietta — 38.66°N, 90.45°WElmdale — 39.17°N, 96.54°WElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.63°WTopeka — 39.01°N, 95.62°WTopeka — 39.02°N, 95.68°WStanton — 39.08°N, 94.93°WStanton — 39.00°N, 95.05°WStanton — 39.22°N, 94.90°WPha Nok Khao — 16.07°N, 100.91°ENeva — 38.37°N, 96.62°WDeer Creek — 38.97°N, 95.06°WBurlingame — 38.96°N, 95.73°WBurlingame — 38.81°N, 95.83°WWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WHoward — 39.06°N, 95.73°WWakarusa — 38.94°N, 95.72°WFalls City — 39.17°N, 96.31°WAmericus — 38.63°N, 96.17°WIatan — 39.33°N, 94.91°WEmporia — 38.42°N, 96.18°WFort Scott Limestone — 38.63°N, 90.32°WHayden Branch — 39.16°N, 87.52°WTak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°E

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The named rock units Cryptobairdia seminalis 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.

Cryptobairdia seminalis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cryptobairdia seminalis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Cryptobairdia seminalis, 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

5 references

Each of the 36 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

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No picture of Cryptobairdia seminalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Cryptobairdia seminalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cryptobairdia seminalis 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 itBairdia (Cryptobairdia) through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knight 1928)