Cypellia

Cypellia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypelliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 9.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 70 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 67 of 70 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 70 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 17 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 10 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 10 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 8 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya152.21 Mya175.3 Mya142.5 Mya

70 occurrences of Cypellia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

70 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

5 formations

Zawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Cypellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypellia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cypellia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Cypellia, 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

11 references

Each of the 70 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 Cypellia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itCypelliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1872