Platycythereis velata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatycythereisPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Platycythereis velata on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous80%
- Paleocene21%
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
2 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
- Jaguel Formation1
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The named rock units Platycythereis velata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platycythereis velata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Platycythereis velata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Cytherella araucana2 sites
- Cytherura2 sites
- Jonesia2 sites
- Paracytheridea rionegrina2 sites
- Pterygocythereis rocana2 sites
- Semicytherura argentinensis2 sites
- Trachyleberis princeps2 sites
- Wichmannella araucana2 sites
- Wichmannella cretacea2 sites
- Acanthocythereis abundans1 site
- Aleisocythereis incerta1 site
- Amphicytherura1 site
- Apatoleberis noviprinceps1 site
- Bradleya argentinensis1 site
- Bradleya patagonica1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Bythocypris ? jagualensis1 site
- Cythereis excellens1 site
- Cythereis rionegrensis1 site
- Cytherella utilis1 site
- Cytherura ? jagualensis1 site
- Hemicytherura rionegrensis1 site
- Keijia flexuosa1 site
- Majungaella pseudonymus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Platycythereis velata, 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
2 references- Upper Cretaceous (middle Maastrichtian) ostracodes of Argentina1
- Upper Cretaceous (Lower Maastrichtian?) ostracodes from Argentina1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Platycythereis velata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Platycythereis velata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platycythereis velata 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 itPlatycythereis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bertels 1974