Cnestocythere

Cnestocythere

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 45 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 47 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23.04 Mya5.333 Mya34.5 Mya3 Mya

47 occurrences of Cnestocythere on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

47 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

3 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EPalizzi — 39.95°N, 16.03°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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The named rock units Cnestocythere 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.

Cnestocythere and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cnestocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

634 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cnestocythere, 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

6 references

Each of the 47 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 Cnestocythere

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

No 3D scan of Cnestocythere 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.