Eucytherura

Eucytherura

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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 231 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 774 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 112 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 51 of 112 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 21 of 112 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 112 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 112 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 112 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 112 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 112 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 112 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 112 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 8 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 8 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 24 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 11 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 21 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–129 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 5 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence233.6 Mya2.58 Mya242 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Eucytherura on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

112 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

19 formations

Djangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WVale das Fontes — 40.03°N, 8.47°WPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°EGliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°EBrenha — 40.03°N, 8.47°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WBrasso — 10.32°N, 61.28°WReklaw — 30.02°N, 97.27°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EKhaneh Kat — 33.83°N, 48.70°EAdnet — 47.75°N, 13.11°EDvuyakornaya — 44.98°N, 35.37°ERoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°W

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The named rock units Eucytherura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucytherura and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Eucytherura and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

896 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Eucytherura, 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

25 references

Each of the 112 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. 13 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 Eucytherura

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Eucytherura 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.