Cyprimeria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclininaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 17 of 322 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 303 of 322 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 322 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 322 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 322 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 322 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 322 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 322 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 5 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 8 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 14 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 9 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 9 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 16 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 16 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 79 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 148 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–204 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences113.2 Mya3.6 Mya124 Mya204 ka

322 occurrences of Cyprimeria on record, most of them in the Late 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

322 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

40 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.77°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.70°N, 96.58°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 33.64°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.67°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.90°N, 95.57°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 34.58°N, 78.27°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.67°N, 77.47°WKiowa — 37.31°N, 99.81°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.40°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.18°WKiowa — 38.39°N, 97.92°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.86°WCoffee Sand — 34.43°N, 88.55°WCoffee Sand — 34.56°N, 88.45°WCoffee Sand — 34.66°N, 88.57°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WPeedee — 34.04°N, 79.80°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 98.89°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 28.60°N, 100.25°WEutaw — 32.39°N, 84.84°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 85.36°WEutaw — 32.34°N, 85.02°WKemp Clay — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WToreva — 36.55°N, 110.48°WAurora Limestone — 26.42°N, 103.25°WLadd — 33.71°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WArkadelphia marl — 34.13°N, 93.07°WArkadelphia marl — 33.73°N, 93.66°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WNeylandville Marl — 33.37°N, 95.69°WNeylandville Marl — 32.59°N, 96.31°W

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The named rock units Cyprimeria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyprimeria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cyprimeria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,022 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 272 sites for Cyprimeria, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

40 references

Each of the 322 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. 28 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 content2

Picture of Cyprimeria

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3D model

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

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What may have been alongside itCyclinina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1864)