Leguminocythereis

Leguminocythereis

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeguminocythereidaePBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 12 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

28 occurrences of Leguminocythereis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

28 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

7 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.20°WWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°ELa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.10°WAlazán — 20.93°N, 97.60°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.50°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Leguminocythereis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leguminocythereis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Leguminocythereis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Leguminocythereis, 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

12 references

Each of the 28 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. 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 Leguminocythereis

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

No 3D scan of Leguminocythereis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLeguminocythereidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howe and Law 1936