Cytherelloidea
Searched as Cytherelloidea cf. colata. The Paleobiology Database treats Cytherelloidea as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycopinaPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cytherelloidea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Cytherelloidea and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cytherelloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
2,352 taxa- Cytherella154 sites
- Bairdia65 sites
- Paracypris63 sites
- Kinkelinella59 sites
- Lenticulina56 sites
- Cythereis54 sites
- Monoceratina50 sites
- Praeschuleridea43 sites
- Eucytherura36 sites
- Orthonotacythere35 sites
- Lenticulina dorbignyi dorbignyi32 sites
- Cytheropteron31 sites
- Otocythere31 sites
- Schuleridea30 sites
- Polycope27 sites
- Polycope pelta27 sites
- Cativella26 sites
- Loxoconcha26 sites
- Reinholdella26 sites
- Acrocythere24 sites
- Bythocypris24 sites
- Costa23 sites
- Ammobaculites20 sites
- Ammobaculites subcretaceus20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 616 sites for Cytherelloidea, and this reads 240 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 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Cytherelloidea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cytherelloidea 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 itPlatycopina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars 1886