Cypris

Cypris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CypridinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyprididae

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 22 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 22 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences174.7 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Cypris on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

22 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

7 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EMarfim — 12.93°S, 38.51°WArén — 42.13°N, 1.09°EHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WNomogen — 43.53°N, 111.73°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°W

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The named rock units Cypris 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.

Cypris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

597 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Cypris, 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

15 references

Each of the 22 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. 3 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 Cypris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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 itCypridinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1776