Cythere ornatissima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytherePBDB
- 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 most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cythere ornatissima on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cythere ornatissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cythere ornatissima and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cythere ornatissima and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Cytherideis laevigata5 sites
- Cythere serrulata4 sites
- Pollicipes glaber3 sites
- Bairdia arcuata2 sites
- Bairdia subdeltoidea2 sites
- Cythere concentrica2 sites
- Cythere karsteni2 sites
- Cytherella muensteri2 sites
- Cytherella ovata2 sites
- Acrodus affinis1 site
- Acrolamna acuminata1 site
- Anomoeodus subclavatus1 site
- Bairdia depressa1 site
- Bairdia elongatum1 site
- Bairdia modesta1 site
- Centrophoroides appendiculatus1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretiscalpellum unguis1 site
- Cretolamna lata1 site
- Cythere cuneata1 site
- Cythere geinitzi1 site
- Cythere gracilis1 site
- Cythere nodifera1 site
- Cythere reticulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cythere ornatissima, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cythere ornatissima was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cythere ornatissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCythere through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1868