Cytheracea

No picture of Cytheracea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Cytheracea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopidaPBDB
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 259 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 347 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 347 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 347 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 347 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 347 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 347 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 347 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 347 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 347 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 43 of 347 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 347 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 347 occurrencesMiocene — about 182 of 347 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 347 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 347 occurrences270–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–189 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences189–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences180–171 Mya — about 9 occurrences171–162 Mya — about 6 occurrences126–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–72 Mya — about 15 occurrences72–63 Mya — about 43 occurrences63–54 Mya — about 22 occurrences54–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–27 Mya — about 10 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 15 occurrences18–9.0 Mya — about 131 occurrences9.0–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences259.857 Mya11.7 ka270 Mya0 Mya

347 occurrences of Cytheracea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

347 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

38 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 39.77°S, 66.68°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WSanta Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°ERoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.96°S, 67.59°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.50°WKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°EYazoo — 31.92°N, 88.40°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBrasso — 10.32°N, 61.28°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WKaraisalı — 36.90°N, 34.50°EPoldarsa — 60.60°N, 45.35°EPoldarsa — 60.58°N, 45.43°EJaguel — 39.00°S, 67.55°WTakikawa — 43.56°N, 141.95°EGalana Boi — 3.70°N, 36.32°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ESa'haronim — 30.60°N, 34.82°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.20°WClastic carbonate — 45.25°N, 46.50°E

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The named rock units Cytheracea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 144 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cytheracea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cytheracea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,852 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Cytheracea, 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

61 references

Each of the 347 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. 49 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Cytheracea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Cytheracea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cytheracea 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. Baird 1850