Cytherina

Cytherina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OstracodaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 419 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 463.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 26 occurrencesSilurian — about 21 of 26 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences472–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–427 Mya — about 19 occurrences427–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–159 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence457.2 Mya37.71 Mya472 Mya25 Mya

26 occurrences of Cytherina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

26 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

6 formations

Rochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WRochester Shale — 43.16°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 39.57°N, 78.84°WDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.00°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHerkimer — 43.04°N, 75.36°W

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The named rock units Cytherina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cytherina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cytherina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cytherina, 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

7 references

Each of the 26 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

Media content1

Picture of Cytherina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cytherina 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.