Cytherea

Cytherea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeretricinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 44 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 44 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 44 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–89 Mya — about 6 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence137.05 Mya11.63 Mya146 Mya3 Mya

44 occurrences of Cytherea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

44 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

19 formations

Mungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EThebes — 26.10°N, 34.10°EByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.43°WClayton — 34.75°N, 92.29°WConway — 42.58°S, 173.49°EConway — 42.81°S, 173.28°ELefipan — 43.05°S, 69.35°WTepetate — 31.62°N, 115.80°WWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WZirc Limestone — 47.27°N, 17.87°ECilanang — 6.73°S, 108.67°EBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WLaidmore — 43.05°S, 172.76°EQuiriquina — 36.72°S, 73.12°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EPysht — 48.17°N, 123.94°WPiesting — 47.84°N, 16.11°E

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The named rock units Cytherea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cytherea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,025 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cytherea, 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

26 references

Each of the 44 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. 14 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 content3

Picture of Cytherea

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

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Madrepora cytherea

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Lamarck 1808