Bensonocythere

Bensonocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeguminocythereidiniPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Hemicytheridae

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPliocene — about 13 of 13 occurrencesPliocene5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.83 Mya3.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Bensonocythere on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

13 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

1 formation

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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

Bensonocythere and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Bensonocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

431 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bensonocythere, 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

1 reference

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Bensonocythere

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bensonocythere 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLeguminocythereidini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hazel 1967