Epicypta nigritella

No picture of Epicypta nigritella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Epicypta nigritella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpicyptaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya12.8 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Epicypta nigritella on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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.

Epicypta nigritella and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Epicypta nigritella and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Epicypta nigritella, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Epicypta nigritella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Epicypta nigritella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Epicypta nigritella 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.

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What may have been alongside itEpicypta through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1849)