Cryptophyllus

Cryptophyllus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CryptophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 368.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 40 of 65 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 65 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 21 of 65 occurrencesDevonian479–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 12 occurrences453–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–385 Mya — about 9 occurrences385–381 Mya — about 9 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458.2 Mya372.15 Mya479 Mya366 Mya

65 occurrences of Cryptophyllus 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

65 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

24 formations

Silica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WSunblood — 61.72°N, 125.93°WSunblood — 62.12°N, 126.68°WSunblood — 62.18°N, 126.70°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.00°EAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WContaya — 7.15°S, 74.57°WEmpozadense — 33.00°S, 69.00°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WSunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WNehou — 49.42°N, 1.82°WCopenhagen — 38.82°N, 116.50°WKowala — 50.92°N, 20.58°EGümüşali — 37.89°N, 36.00°E

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The named rock units Cryptophyllus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptophyllus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cryptophyllus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

730 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Cryptophyllus, 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

21 references

Each of the 65 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. 9 further references are 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 Cryptophyllus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Levinson 1951