Actinocythereis tuberculata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinocythereisPBDB
- 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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Actinocythereis tuberculata on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Actinocythereis tuberculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinocythereis tuberculata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Actinocythereis tuberculata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Copytus3 sites
- Cytherella semicatillus3 sites
- Eucythere dinetos3 sites
- Aleisocythereis polikothonus2 sites
- Apatoleberis noviprinceps2 sites
- Castillocythereis albertoriccardii2 sites
- Cythereis incerta2 sites
- Krithe crepidus2 sites
- Mimicocythereis attilai2 sites
- Nodoconcha2 sites
- Oertliella2 sites
- Paramunseyella epaphroditus2 sites
- Petalocythereis venusta2 sites
- Semicytherura2 sites
- Sthenarocythereis erymnos2 sites
- Veenia (Nigeria) punctata2 sites
- Acuturris scotus1 site
- Aleisocythereis1 site
- Anebocythereis1 site
- Argilloecia concludus1 site
- Aversovalva glochinos1 site
- Bertelsiana escobari1 site
- Bolivina1 site
- Braarudosphaera bigelowii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Actinocythereis tuberculata, 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
2 references- New genera and species of Ostracoda from the Maastrichtian and Danian of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina2
- A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the upper levels of the La Colonia Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina1
Each of the 3 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 Actinocythereis tuberculata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Actinocythereis tuberculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinocythereis tuberculata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itActinocythereis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bertels 1975