Perissocytheridea

Perissocytheridea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachycytheridaePBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesMiocene85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya15.98 Mya85 Mya6 Mya

11 occurrences of Perissocytheridea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

11 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

Brasso — 10.32°N, 61.28°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WHuasteca — 21.50°N, 98.03°WAllen — 38.67°S, 68.00°WCibao Marl — 18.38°N, 66.97°WPebas — 7.25°S, 74.98°W

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

Perissocytheridea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Perissocytheridea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Perissocytheridea, 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 11 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 Perissocytheridea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBrachycytheridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1938