Pontocyprella

Pontocyprella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PontocyprididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 167 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 44 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 24 of 44 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 44 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 44 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 44 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 44 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 44 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 5 occurrences198–192 Mya — about 8 occurrences192–186 Mya — about 9 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 7 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences233.6 Mya66 Mya241 Mya58 Mya

44 occurrences of Pontocyprella on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

44 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

8 formations

Brian de Vère — 44.07°N, 1.74°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WRenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°EZebbeus — 36.18°N, 8.72°EAdnet — 47.75°N, 13.11°EPalermo Aike — 50.75°S, 70.33°W

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The named rock units Pontocyprella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pontocyprella and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

396 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Pontocyprella, 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

12 references

Each of the 44 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. 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 Pontocyprella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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What may have been alongside itPontocyprididae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.