Eocypraea dollfusi
No picture of Eocypraea dollfusi 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 Eocypraea dollfusi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EocypraeaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eocypraea dollfusi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Eocypraea dollfusi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eocypraea dollfusi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Eutrephoceras umbilicare2 sites
- Seraphs2 sites
- Acrocolpus1 site
- Acropora sp.1 site
- Agathina pellucida1 site
- Amauropsina1 site
- Ampullaria sigaretina1 site
- Apiotoma1 site
- Auricula conovuliformis1 site
- Benoistia1 site
- Bittium (Bittium)1 site
- Bulla conulus1 site
- Bulla cylindrica1 site
- Bulla cylindroides1 site
- Bythinella1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta1 site
- Calyptraea laevigata1 site
- Calyptraea lamellosa1 site
- Calyptraea trochiformis1 site
- Cepatia cepacea1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)1 site
- Cimomia imperialis1 site
- Cirsotrema (Coroniscala) coronale1 site
- Clava (Semivertagus)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eocypraea dollfusi, 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- First fossil records of the Recent Ovulid genus Pseudocypraea Schilder, 1927 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) with description of a new species1
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique1
- Cossmann and Pissarro, 19111
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Eocypraea dollfusi 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 Eocypraea dollfusi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eocypraea dollfusi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itEocypraea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (De Laubriere 1881)