Citharina heteropleura
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CitharinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nodosariidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Citharina heteropleura on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Citharina heteropleura and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Citharina heteropleura and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Archaeometra1 site
- Asteriidae1 site
- Cristellaria subalata1 site
- Cytherella1 site
- Cytherelloidea1 site
- Frondicularia1 site
- Geocoma carinata1 site
- Haplophragmium1 site
- Lenticulina rotulata1 site
- Lophocythere1 site
- Monoceratina1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Ophiacantha liesbergensis1 site
- Ophiomusium calloviense1 site
- Ophiopetra lithographica1 site
- Pentasteria1 site
- Planularia1 site
- Planularia beierana1 site
- Progonocythere1 site
- Pseudocitharina proxima1 site
- Saracenaria1 site
- Schuleridea1 site
- Sinosura wolburgi1 site
- Spirillina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Citharina heteropleura, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Citharina heteropleura
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itCitharina through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Terquem 1868)