Protocyprina

No picture of Protocyprina 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 Protocyprina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeomiodontidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya113.2 Mya143.8 Mya109.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Protocyprina 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

6 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

5 formations

Sebayashi — 40.95°N, 140.43°ESebayashi — 36.07°N, 138.83°ETatsukawa — 33.83°N, 134.50°EShiroi — 36.25°N, 138.67°EYuasa — 34.02°N, 135.17°EAbeih — 33.73°N, 35.53°E

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The named rock units Protocyprina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protocyprina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Protocyprina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Protocyprina, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Protocyprina 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 Protocyprina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protocyprina 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 itNeomiodontidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vokes 1946