Metacytheropteron

Metacytheropteron

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytheruridaePBDB
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 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences210–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences233.6 Mya100.5 Mya240 Mya91 Mya

6 occurrences of Metacytheropteron on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

6 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

Zebbag — 34.12°N, 9.03°EArgiles de Ghriss — 35.25°N, 0.15°ENayband — 31.15°N, 52.65°EKhaneh Kat — 33.83°N, 48.70°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°E

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The named rock units Metacytheropteron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Metacytheropteron and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Metacytheropteron and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Metacytheropteron, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Metacytheropteron

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Metacytheropteron 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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What may have been alongside itCytheruridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.