Monoceratina
Searched as Monoceratina gruendeli gruendeli. The Paleobiology Database treats Monoceratina as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BythocytheridaePBDB
- 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 most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Monoceratina on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Monoceratina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Monoceratina and its relatives
PermianWhere Monoceratina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,115 taxa- Bairdia68 sites
- Kinkelinella51 sites
- Polycope44 sites
- Paracypris40 sites
- Praeschuleridea39 sites
- Bairdiacypris36 sites
- Polycope pelta33 sites
- Orthonotacythere32 sites
- Cytherelloidea31 sites
- Cytherella30 sites
- Lenticulina dorbignyi dorbignyi27 sites
- Otocythere27 sites
- Eucytherura26 sites
- Callicythere postiangusta25 sites
- Reinholdella23 sites
- Acrocythere22 sites
- Bairdia beedei21 sites
- Ammobaculites subcretaceus20 sites
- Bythocypris19 sites
- Kinkelinella (Ektyphocythere)19 sites
- Aphelocythere17 sites
- Cytherella toarcensis17 sites
- Pleydellia17 sites
- Polycope cincinnata15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 208 sites for Monoceratina, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Monoceratina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Monoceratina 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 itBythocytheridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth 1928