Paracypris

Paracypris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParacypridinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Candonidae

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Permian — about 11 of 394 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 61 of 394 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 25 of 394 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 17 of 394 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 68 of 394 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 40 of 394 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 394 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 394 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 394 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 51 of 394 occurrencesEocene — about 37 of 394 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 394 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 394 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 394 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 394 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 57 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 35 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 8 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 10 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 7 occurrences199–190 Mya — about 13 occurrences190–181 Mya — about 25 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 39 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 26 occurrences164–155 Mya — about 7 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 6 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 11 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 45 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 15 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 13 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 18 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 20 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences251.902 Mya5.333 Mya259 Mya0 Mya

394 occurrences of Paracypris on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

394 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

79 formations

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WZafir — 32.14°N, 34.98°EKokarkuyu — 36.69°N, 30.46°EQom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.90°WDaye — 25.57°N, 106.66°EElikah — 36.22°N, 51.35°EElikah — 39.01°N, 45.43°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ERoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 38.96°S, 67.59°WOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°ECalcaires marneux du Santonien — 33.10°N, 5.30°WVale das Fontes — 40.03°N, 8.47°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.63°EAmeki — 5.58°N, 7.58°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°ESanta Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WLuolou — 24.58°N, 106.89°EDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°ESa'haronim — 30.60°N, 34.82°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ETiyon — 26.12°N, 67.83°EBac Thuy — 21.74°N, 106.72°EKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°E

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The named rock units Paracypris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paracypris and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Paracypris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 306 sites for Paracypris, and this reads 240 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

83 references

Each of the 394 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. 71 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 content1

Picture of Paracypris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Sars 1866