Cytheridea

Cytheridea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherideiniPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cytherideidae

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 216 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 216 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 84 of 216 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 216 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 216 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 216 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 216 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 11 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 8 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 9 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 21 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 27 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 13 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 9 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 21 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 18 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

216 occurrences of Cytheridea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

216 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

31 formations

Pirabas — 1.10°S, 47.16°WYazoo — 31.92°N, 88.40°WHuasteca — 21.50°N, 98.03°WYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 91.90°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WNanafalia — 32.11°N, 87.99°WKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 38.59°N, 97.84°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.99°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPaluxy — 33.93°N, 97.12°WGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WGliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EKincaid — 33.25°N, 95.91°WKincaid — 30.36°N, 97.41°WKincaid — 33.03°N, 95.98°WHatchetigbee — 33.02°N, 86.10°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EBřezno — 50.40°N, 13.42°EBřezno — 49.54°N, 16.42°EHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°ERosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°EReklaw — 30.02°N, 97.27°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°E

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The named rock units Cytheridea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cytheridea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cytheridea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Cytheridea, 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

31 references

Each of the 216 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. 19 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 content1

Picture of Cytheridea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cytheridea 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 itCytherideini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bosquet 1852