Cythereis incerta
No picture of Cythereis incerta 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 Cythereis incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CythereisPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cythereis incerta 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cythereis incerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cythereis incerta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cythereis incerta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Aleisocythereis polikothonus4 sites
- Petalocythereis venusta4 sites
- Apatoleberis noviprinceps3 sites
- Castillocythereis albertoriccardii3 sites
- Hysterocythereis attenuata3 sites
- Keijia flexuosa3 sites
- Mimicocythereis attilai3 sites
- Paramunseyella epaphroditus3 sites
- Sthenarocythereis erymnos3 sites
- Veenia (Nigeria) punctata3 sites
- Actinocythereis tuberculata2 sites
- Argilloecia abnormalis2 sites
- Argilloecia concludus2 sites
- Copytus2 sites
- Cythereis rionegrensis2 sites
- Cytherella semicatillus2 sites
- Eucythere dinetos2 sites
- Eucytherura stibaros2 sites
- Krithe crepidus2 sites
- Markalius neuquenensis2 sites
- Munseyella costaevermiculatus2 sites
- Nodoconcha2 sites
- Oertliella2 sites
- Veenia tumida2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cythereis incerta, 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 4 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
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No picture of Cythereis incerta 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 Cythereis incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cythereis incerta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCythereis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bertels 1975