Cyrtocapsa

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucyrtidiidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 116 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 116 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 13 of 116 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 116 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 116 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 49 of 116 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–169 Mya — about 6 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 5 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–146 Mya — about 5 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 8 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 9 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 12 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 34 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 19 occurrences170.9 Mya66 Mya177 Mya59 Mya

116 occurrences of Cyrtocapsa on record. 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

116 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

14 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EMaiolica — 43.26°N, 12.81°EMaiolica — 43.13°N, 13.17°EMaiolica — 44.00°N, 14.00°EWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.73°N, 57.40°EWahrah — 22.74°N, 57.26°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.88°N, 8.64°ETaman — 21.28°N, 98.82°WSoccher — 46.19°N, 12.30°ESolan — 49.38°N, 18.39°EJarropa Radiolarite — 37.57°N, 3.50°WRosso ad Aptici — 45.90°N, 9.00°EFonzaso — 45.88°N, 8.64°EWai Luli — 10.73°S, 123.03°EJosephine — 42.00°N, 123.76°WKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°ECamarena — 37.57°N, 3.50°W

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The named rock units Cyrtocapsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

638 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Cyrtocapsa, and this reads all 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

15 references

Each of the 116 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Cyrtocapsa 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1881