Cypridae

No picture of Cypridae was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cypridae itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cypridae firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence119.57 Mya37.71 Mya128 Mya32 Mya

6 occurrences of Cypridae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

6 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

4 formations

Osborne Beds — 50.67°N, 1.51°WOsborne Beds — 50.71°N, 1.10°WPaluxy — 31.70°N, 98.51°WHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WVectis — 50.62°N, 1.40°W

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The named rock units Cypridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cypridae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cypridae, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Cypridae was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cypridae itself, so it was not used.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cypridae firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird 1846