Lophocythere

Lophocythere

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ProgonocytherinaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 14 of 21 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 21 occurrencesLate Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya154.8 Mya171.4 Mya148.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Lophocythere on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

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

5 formations

Duvalia Marl — 22.95°S, 44.42°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WCabaços — 39.91°N, 8.95°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°E

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The named rock units Lophocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophocythere and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lophocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lophocythere, 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

8 references

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. 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 Lophocythere

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Lophocythere 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.