Asciocythere

Asciocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherideinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cytherideidae

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 30 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya113.2 Mya155.7 Mya109.2 Mya

30 occurrences of Asciocythere 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

30 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

13 formations

Argiles de Ghriss — 35.25°N, 0.15°EPapo Seco — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.23°N, 98.23°WMarnes à Toxaster — 38.81°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Polypiers de Lagosteiros — 38.40°N, 9.22°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.81°N, 9.47°WGrès inférieurs — 38.72°N, 9.45°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.77°N, 9.30°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°W

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The named rock units Asciocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asciocythere and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Asciocythere, 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

5 references

Each of the 30 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 Asciocythere

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 itCytherideinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.