Palaeocypraea fontana
No picture of Palaeocypraea fontana 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 Palaeocypraea fontana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeocypraeaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Palaeocypraea fontana on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Palaeocypraea fontana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeocypraea fontana and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Palaeocypraea fontana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Cyprina denmanensis1 site
- Desmophyllites diphylloides1 site
- Hulenites onona1 site
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum1 site
- Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) alamedense1 site
- Megatrigonia (Apiotrigonia) condoni1 site
- Neohibolites fontinalis1 site
- Paosia acuminata1 site
- Thyasira cretacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Palaeocypraea fontana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Palaeocypraea fontana 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 Palaeocypraea fontana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeocypraea fontana 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 itPalaeocypraea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1958)