Cytheropteron

Cytheropteron

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherurinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cytheruridae

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 284 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 284 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 284 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 284 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 31 of 284 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 284 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 284 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 284 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 284 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 284 occurrencesEocene — about 53 of 284 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 284 occurrencesMiocene — about 85 of 284 occurrencesPliocene — about 18 of 284 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 284 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–228 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–178 Mya — about 21 occurrences178–169 Mya — about 9 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 6 occurrences161–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–59 Mya — about 27 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 40 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 15 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 21 occurrences17–8.5 Mya — about 57 occurrences8.5–0 Mya — about 50 occurrences247 Mya11.7 ka254 Mya0 Mya

284 occurrences of Cytheropteron on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

284 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

39 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.35°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WTubará — 10.87°N, 74.98°WYazoo — 31.92°N, 88.40°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°ERoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.56°WAlazán — 21.20°N, 97.73°WAlazán — 21.10°N, 97.72°WSão Gião — 40.03°N, 8.47°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WTiyon — 26.12°N, 67.83°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPaluxy — 33.93°N, 97.12°WSanta Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WLemede — 40.03°N, 8.47°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°W

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The named rock units Cytheropteron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 128 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cytheropteron and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cytheropteron and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 203 sites for Cytheropteron, 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

57 references

Each of the 284 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. 45 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 Cytheropteron

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cytheropteron 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars 1866