Costa (Paracosta)
No picture of Costa (Paracosta) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Costa (Paracosta), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostaPBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
30 occurrences of Costa (Paracosta) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
30 occurrences- Late Cretaceous20%
- Paleocene7%
- Eocene73%
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
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The named rock units Costa (Paracosta) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Costa (Paracosta) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Costa (Paracosta) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Paracosta dahomeyi19 sites
- Togoina attitogonensis8 sites
- Bairdoppilata ilaroensis6 sites
- Paracosta grekoffi6 sites
- Buntonia issabaensis4 sites
- Xestoleberis4 sites
- Afranticythereis attitogonensis3 sites
- Asymmetricythere cinqua3 sites
- Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi3 sites
- Dahomeya acuta3 sites
- Hornibrookella arcana3 sites
- Neonesidea khoslai3 sites
- Afranticythereis2 sites
- Afranticythereis bopaensis2 sites
- Asymmetricythere tertia2 sites
- Bairdoppilata poddari2 sites
- Buntonia preklologoensis2 sites
- Bythocypris alejo2 sites
- Cytherella protuberantis2 sites
- Eocytheropteron sagena2 sites
- Hermanites regulosa2 sites
- Isobuntonia harpa2 sites
- Leguminocythereis senegalensis2 sites
- Occultocythereis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Costa (Paracosta), 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
3 references- Les ostracodes paleogènes du Togo: Taxonomie, biostratigraphie, apports dans l'organisation et l'évolution du bassin19
- Données nouvelles biochronologiques et paléoécologiques sur le bassin sédimentaire côtier du Bénin entre le Crétacé supérieur et l'Éocène basal (Afrique de l'ouest)7
- Microfossil assemblages from the Eocene Sylhet Limestone and Kopili Formation, Sylhet district, northeast Bangladesh4
Each of the 30 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 content0
No picture of Costa (Paracosta) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Costa (Paracosta), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costa (Paracosta) 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 itCosta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.