Cythere

Cythere

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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 340 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 64 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 64 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 64 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 64 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 64 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 64 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 64 occurrences359–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence299–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–84 Mya — about 21 occurrences84–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–36 Mya — about 20 occurrences36–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences342.9 Mya2.58 Mya359 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Cythere on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

64 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

17 formations

Yegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WTeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°EBřezno — 50.40°N, 13.42°EBřezno — 50.38°N, 13.77°EBřezno — 50.45°N, 14.15°EKorycany — 50.49°N, 13.75°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBecton — 50.74°N, 1.69°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WPaluxy — 33.93°N, 97.12°WGatun — 9.37°N, 79.85°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WFlagstaff — 30.28°S, 153.01°EBundella — 42.92°S, 147.36°EWaverly Sandstone — 40.06°N, 82.40°WGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°EBrežno — 50.04°N, 15.69°ETeplitzer — 50.37°N, 13.90°E

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The named rock units Cythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cythere and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cythere and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

678 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cythere, 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

17 references

Each of the 64 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. 5 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 content1

Picture of Cythere

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

No 3D scan of Cythere 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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What may have been alongside itCytheridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1785