Cytherella tumidosa
No picture of Cytherella tumidosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cytherella tumidosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytherellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Platycopida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cytherella tumidosa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
- Porters Creek Formation2
- Clayton Formation2
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Cytherella tumidosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cytherella tumidosa and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Cytherella tumidosa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Brachycythere plena4 sites
- Dentalina colei4 sites
- Hermanites4 sites
- Valvulinaria sp.4 sites
- Acanthocythereis3 sites
- Cibicides3 sites
- Guttulina problema3 sites
- Hazelina3 sites
- Robulus3 sites
- Robulus midwayensis3 sites
- Vaginulina3 sites
- Anomalina2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Bairdia suborbiculata2 sites
- Ellipsonodosaria2 sites
- Globulina gibba2 sites
- Opimocythere2 sites
- Phacorhabdotus2 sites
- Cibicides alleni1 site
- Clavulinoides1 site
- Clithrocytheridea1 site
- Cythereis cancellosa1 site
- Cytherelloidea1 site
- Discorbis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cytherella tumidosa, 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
2 references- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri4
- Ostracoda of the Midway (Eocene) of Texas1
Each 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 Cytherella tumidosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cytherella tumidosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cytherella tumidosa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCytherella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alexander 1934