Cupedites

No picture of Cupedites 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 Cupedites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchostemataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya161.5 Mya184.8 Mya154.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Cupedites 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

2 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

2 formations

Makarova — 55.97°N, 92.71°EIchetuy — 50.64°N, 105.43°E

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The named rock units Cupedites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cupedites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cupedites 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 Cupedites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cupedites 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 itArchostemata through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ponomarenko 1985