Carbonita

Carbonita is an extinct genus of nonmarine ostracod crustaceans that lived during the Carboniferous period.

Carbonita

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPermian367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–294 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358.86 Mya293.52 Mya367 Mya289 Mya

9 occurrences of Carbonita on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

9 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

7 formations

Wild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WBerchogur? — 48.00°N, 58.00°EWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WNeva — 39.18°N, 96.59°WUpper Coal Measures — 54.91°N, 1.44°WElmdale — 39.17°N, 96.54°WVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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

Carbonita and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Carbonita and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Carbonita, 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 9 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 Carbonita

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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCyprididae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strand 1928