Cypraedia girauxi

No picture of Cypraedia girauxi 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 girauxi, 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 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya41.03 Mya56.5 Mya37.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Cypraedia girauxi 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

3 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

Bateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°E

Loading coastlines…

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

Cypraedia girauxi and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cypraedia girauxi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cypraedia girauxi, 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

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Cypraedia girauxi 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.

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. (Cossmann and Pissarro 1911)