Citrella

Citrella

Dr Lesley M. Sheppard · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 7 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya237 Mya249.1 Mya233.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Citrella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

7 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

2 formations

Tulong — 28.44°N, 86.14°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°E

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

Citrella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Citrella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Citrella, 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

Each of the 7 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 Citrella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Lesley M. Sheppard
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 itCytherurinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.