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Cupithecidae ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | family (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Problematica : Cupithecidae | ||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 541 - 520 Ma Cambrian | ||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 89.8 - 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | C. Duan. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Xihaoping Formation the Shennongjia district, Hubei Province - hyoliths and fossil skeletons of unknown affinities. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 7:141-188 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Cupitheca ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 117 | 541 Ma Cambrian | 89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1984 | Cupithecidae Duan p. 154 |
1993 | Cupithecidae Brock and Cooper p. 777 |
2010 | Cupitthecidae Parkhaev and Demidenko p. 949 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!