Propontocypris nigeriensis
No picture of Propontocypris nigeriensis 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 Propontocypris nigeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PropontocyprisPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
4 occurrences of Propontocypris nigeriensis on record. 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- Late Cretaceous50%
- Paleocene50%
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 the same rock
24 taxa- Bairdoppilata ilaroensis4 sites
- Buntonia issabaensis2 sites
- Buntonia preklologoensis2 sites
- Paleocosta rectangularis2 sites
- Paracosta grekoffi2 sites
- Soudanocytheridea soudana2 sites
- Afranticythereis1 site
- Benina sehouensis1 site
- Brachycythere armata1 site
- Buntonia1 site
- Buntonia livida1 site
- Buntonia ouinhiensis1 site
- Buntonia tenuipunctata1 site
- Bythocypris olaredodui1 site
- Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi1 site
- Eocytheropteron sagena1 site
- Guembelitria cretacea1 site
- Heterohelix globulosa1 site
- Heterohelix striata1 site
- Mehesella biafraensis1 site
- Neonesidea elongatoilaroensis1 site
- Planoglobulina1 site
- Protobasslerites akinsidensis1 site
- Rugoglobigerina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Propontocypris nigeriensis, 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 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
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No picture of Propontocypris nigeriensis 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 Propontocypris nigeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Propontocypris nigeriensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itPropontocypris through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reyment 1960)