Cypraedia elegans
No picture of Cypraedia elegans 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 Cypraedia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CypraediaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Cypraedia elegans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
11 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cypraedia elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cypraedia elegans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cypraedia elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
580 taxa- Cepatia cepacea6 sites
- Seraphs6 sites
- Spondylus6 sites
- Architectonica5 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Venericardia5 sites
- Xenophora5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta4 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa4 sites
- Gari4 sites
- Gigantostrea gigantica4 sites
- Haustator imbricataria4 sites
- Hipponix4 sites
- Lucina4 sites
- Natica4 sites
- Pholadomya puschi4 sites
- Potamides4 sites
- Solecurtus4 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina3 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Anomia tenuistriata3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Arca biangula3 sites
- Athleta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cypraedia elegans, 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
7 references- Karagyuleva, 19643
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)2
- Zgornjeeocenska favna iz okolice Drnisa [Upper Eocene fauna from Drnis area]2
- Geologie, Paläontologie und Palökologie der südostbayerischen unter-priabonen (Ober-Eozän) Riffkalkvorkommen bei Hallthurm (Nördliche Kalkalpen) und der Kirchbergs bei Neubeuern (Helvetikum)1
- Révision des Triviacea et Cypraeacea (Mollusca, Prosobranchia) éocènes récoltés dans les localité de Gan (Tuilerie et Acot) et Bosdarros (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)1
- Significato paleoecologico di una malacofauna eocenica superiore della Marna di Possagno (Trevigiano, Italia NE) nell'ambito delle faune bentoniche dell Tetide1
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique1
Each of the 11 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
Media content0
No picture of Cypraedia elegans 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 Cypraedia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cypraedia elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCypraedia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1826)