Cypraedia

Cypraedia is an extinct genus of gastropods.

Cypraedia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypraediinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 50 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 50 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

50 occurrences of Cypraedia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

50 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

22 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.04°N, 92.02°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.52°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ECalcaire d'Octroi — 45.13°N, 0.66°WFaxe — 55.26°N, 12.13°EMarnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WKhuiala — 27.86°N, 72.93°ELaki — 25.67°N, 68.14°EMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMarne Euganee — 45.55°N, 11.29°ESables de Pierrefonds — 49.38°N, 3.00°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.23°ENanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°EKøbenhavn — 55.57°N, 12.93°ECook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°W

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The named rock units Cypraedia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypraedia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cypraedia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,587 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Cypraedia, 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

31 references

Each of the 50 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. 19 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 Cypraedia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Cypraedia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCypraediinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)