Procytheropteron

Procytheropteron

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytheruridaePBDB
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 most 400 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.6 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic169–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169.1 Mya167.7 Mya

8 occurrences of Procytheropteron 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

8 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

1 formation

Djangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°E

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

Procytheropteron and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Procytheropteron, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Procytheropteron

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procytheropteron 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.