Pleurocythere

Pleurocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtocytherinaePBDB
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 9.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya165.3 Mya184.7 Mya161 Mya

3 occurrences of Pleurocythere on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

3 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.

Pleurocythere and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pleurocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pleurocythere, 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

Each of the 3 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 Pleurocythere

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pleurocythere 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 itProtocytherinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.