Paracypris trosliensis
Cummings, Brittany · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- ParacyprisPBDB
- 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 most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paracypris trosliensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
4 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Tabligbo Limestone Formation · Tabligbo Group1
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The named rock units Paracypris trosliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracypris trosliensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Paracypris trosliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Soudanella laciniosa3 sites
- Bythocypris2 sites
- Platella ewekoroensis2 sites
- Trachyleberis teiskotensis2 sites
- ? Exophthalmocythere usmandanfodioi1 site
- ? Mauritsina teiskotensis1 site
- ? Protobasslerites trisulcata1 site
- Aulocytheridea kisslingi1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdoppilata ilaroensis1 site
- Buntonia bopaensis1 site
- Buntonia isobopaensis1 site
- Buntonia livida1 site
- Cibicides1 site
- Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi1 site
- Cytherelloidea1 site
- Discorbis1 site
- Eocytheropteron alidoui1 site
- Eponides1 site
- Gyrocythere sehouensis1 site
- Hazelina1 site
- Henryhowella1 site
- Isobuntonia tattami1 site
- Kingmaina forbenina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paracypris trosliensis, 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- Les ostracodes paleogènes du Togo: Taxonomie, biostratigraphie, apports dans l'organisation et l'évolution du bassin2
- Le bassin sedimentaire a phosphates du Togo (Maastrichtien-Eocene): stratigraphie, environments et evolution1
- Données nouvelles biochronologiques et paléoécologiques sur le bassin sédimentaire côtier du Bénin entre le Crétacé supérieur et l'Éocène basal (Afrique de l'ouest)1
Each of the 4 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 Paracypris trosliensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cummings, Brittany
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Paracypris trosliensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParacypris through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Apostolescu 1956