Cytherina spinosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytherinaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Cytherina spinosa 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
21 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group16
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group4
- Herkimer Formation · Clinton Group1
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The named rock units Cytherina spinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cytherina spinosa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cytherina spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Dalmanites18 sites
- Dalmanella16 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis16 sites
- Atrypa reticularis15 sites
- Schuchertella15 sites
- Camarotoechia neglecta14 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus14 sites
- Enterolasma13 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis13 sites
- Homalonotus13 sites
- Paraechmina13 sites
- Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda12 sites
- Fenestella12 sites
- Pterinea12 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida12 sites
- Chasmatopora11 sites
- Dizygopleura11 sites
- Mesotrypa11 sites
- Spirifer11 sites
- Beyrichia10 sites
- Platyceras niagarensis9 sites
- Rhipidomella9 sites
- Dawsonoceras annulatum8 sites
- Dolerorthis flabellites8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cytherina spinosa, 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
4 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York17
- Silurian System of West Virginia2
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology1
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
Each of the 21 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 Cytherina spinosa 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 Cytherina spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cytherina spinosa 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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What may have been alongside itCytherina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1852)