Neocythere

Neocythere

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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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 17 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

18 occurrences of Neocythere on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

18 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

fahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ECalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WPalermo Aike — 50.75°S, 70.33°W

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The named rock units Neocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neocythere and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Neocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Neocythere, 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

6 references

Each of the 18 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 Neocythere

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

No 3D scan of Neocythere 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 itProgonocytherinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.