Cytherella utilis
No picture of Cytherella utilis 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 Cytherella utilis, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cytherella utilis 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 Cretaceous59%
- Paleocene41%
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
- Loncoche Formation · Malargüe Group1
- Roca Formation1
- Jagüel Formation1
- Jaguel Formation1
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The named rock units Cytherella utilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cytherella utilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cytherella utilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Acanthocythereis abundans3 sites
- Cythereis excellens3 sites
- Paracypris3 sites
- Aleisocythereis incerta2 sites
- Apatoleberis noviprinceps2 sites
- Bradleya argentinensis2 sites
- Bradleya patagonica2 sites
- Bythocypris ? jagualensis2 sites
- Cythereis rionegrensis2 sites
- Keijia flexuosa2 sites
- Mimicocythereis attilai2 sites
- Munseyella minima2 sites
- Paracypris aff. gracilis2 sites
- Petalocythereis venusta2 sites
- Pterygocythereis rocana2 sites
- Togoina cretacea2 sites
- Trachyleberis princeps2 sites
- Veenia (Nigeria) punctata2 sites
- Veenia tumida2 sites
- Wichmannella magna2 sites
- Actinocythereis indigena1 site
- Actinocythereis rex1 site
- Alabamina kaasschieteri1 site
- Amphicytherura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cytherella utilis, 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
3 references- Upper Cretaceous (middle Maastrichtian) ostracodes of Argentina2
- Ostracodes of the type locality of the Lower Tertiary (lower Danian) Rocanian Stage and Roca Formation of Argentina1
- Micropaleontología y estratigrafía del límite Cretácico-Terciario en Huantraico (Provincia de Neuquén)1
Each 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. 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 content0
No picture of Cytherella utilis 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 Cytherella utilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cytherella utilis 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 itCytherella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bertels 1968