Eucythere

Eucythere

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 228 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 25 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 25 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 25 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences233.6 Mya5.333 Mya242 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Eucythere on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

25 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

8 formations

Jagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPolonez Cove — 62.13°S, 58.18°WWills Point — 31.71°N, 96.49°WHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°ELa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°W

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The named rock units Eucythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucythere and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Eucythere and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

771 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Eucythere, 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

13 references

Each of the 25 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. 1 further reference is 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 Eucythere

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eucythere 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. Brady 1868