Cyclocypris
Cyclocypris is a genus of ostracods in the family Candonidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OstracodaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Cyclocypris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene29%
- Pleistocene71%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cyclocypris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyclocypris and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cyclocypris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Candona4 sites
- Gyraulus4 sites
- Fossaria3 sites
- Heterocypris3 sites
- Limnocythere3 sites
- Potamogeton3 sites
- Stagnicola3 sites
- Valvata3 sites
- Bembidion (Bracteon) balli2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Candona candida2 sites
- Candona neglecta2 sites
- Chironomidae2 sites
- Chironomus2 sites
- Cryptochironomus2 sites
- Cypridopsis2 sites
- Dicrotendipes2 sites
- Glyptotendipes2 sites
- Isoetes lacustris2 sites
- Limnephilidae2 sites
- Orthocladiinae2 sites
- Phryganeidae2 sites
- Pinus2 sites
- Pisidium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclocypris, 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
3 references- A diverse late-glacial (Mackinaw Phase) biota from Leamington, Ontario4
- Ostracods of the Paratethyan Neogene Kılıç and Yalakdere formations near Yalova (Izmit Province, Turkey)2
- Bison occidentalis Lucas found at Taber, Alberta, Canada1
Each of the 7 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 Cyclocypris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cyclocypris 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cyclocypris”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOstracoda through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady and Norman 1889