Eocypridina

Eocypridina is an extinct genus of ostracods which lived from the Devonian to early Triassic periods in the United States and Scotland. It was first named in 1960, with E. campbelli as its type species.

Eocypridina

T. Rupert Jones, James W. Kirkby and George Stewardson Brady · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CycloleberidiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Myodocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Myodocopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian349–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330.3 Mya259.857 Mya349 Mya252 Mya

2 occurrences of Eocypridina on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

2 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

2 formations

Episkopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EGullane — 55.98°N, 3.26°W

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The named rock units Eocypridina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eocypridina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eocypridina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eocypridina, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Eocypridina

Credit
T. Rupert Jones, James W. Kirkby and George Stewardson Brady
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eocypridina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCycloleberidini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.