Orthrocosta phantasia
No picture of Orthrocosta phantasia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthrocosta phantasia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthrocostaPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Orthrocosta phantasia 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
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous25%
- Paleocene75%
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 Orthrocosta phantasia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthrocosta phantasia and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Orthrocosta phantasia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Argilloecia abnormalis8 sites
- Cytherella saraballentae7 sites
- Wichmannella meridionalis7 sites
- Actinocythereis indigena6 sites
- Cytherella semicatillus6 sites
- Huantraiconella prima6 sites
- Keijia huantraicoensis6 sites
- Nodoconcha polytorosa6 sites
- Paracypris bertelsae6 sites
- Paracypris imaguncula6 sites
- Petalocythereis schilleri6 sites
- Cythereis stratios5 sites
- Cythereis trajectiones5 sites
- Cytherella terminopunctata5 sites
- Trachyleberis weiperti5 sites
- Actinocythereis rex4 sites
- Argilloecia hydrodynamicus4 sites
- Castillocythereis multicastrum4 sites
- Cytheropteron translimitares4 sites
- Eucytherura stibaros4 sites
- Henryhowella nascens4 sites
- Huantraiconella costata4 sites
- Hysterocythereis coinotes4 sites
- Keijia kratistos4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Orthrocosta phantasia, 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 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Orthrocosta phantasia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthrocosta phantasia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthrocosta phantasia 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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What may have been alongside itOrthrocosta through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ceolin et al. 2015