Paracytheridea belhavenensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacytherideaPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
4 occurrences of Paracytheridea belhavenensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Gosport Formation1
- Alazán Formation1
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Paracytheridea belhavenensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracytheridea belhavenensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paracytheridea belhavenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Brachycythere2 sites
- Clithrocytheridea2 sites
- Cytherura2 sites
- "Cythereis" hysonensis dahmi1 site
- Ambocythere1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdoppilata1 site
- Buntonia1 site
- Clithrocytheridea grigsbyi vicksburgensis1 site
- Cushmanidea1 site
- Cythereis1 site
- Cytherella1 site
- Cytherella hannai1 site
- Cytherelloidea danvillensis1 site
- Cytheretta1 site
- Cytheretta alexanderi1 site
- Cytheridea garretti1 site
- Cytheridea grigsbyi1 site
- Cytheridea montgomeryensis1 site
- Cytheropteron1 site
- Echinocythereis1 site
- Haplocytheridea1 site
- Hemicythere1 site
- Hemicytheridea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paracytheridea belhavenensis, 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
3 references- Louisiana Jackson Eocene Ostracoda2
- Some Ostracoda from the Alazán Formation, Mexico1
- Gosport Eocene Ostracoda from Little Stave Creek, Alabama1
Each of the 4 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 Paracytheridea belhavenensis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Paracytheridea belhavenensis 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 itParacytheridea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howe and Chambers 1935