Protocythere

Protocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherettinaePBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 27 of 28 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 4 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya113.2 Mya155.7 Mya109.2 Mya

28 occurrences of Protocythere on record, most of them in the Early 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

28 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

7 formations

Argiles de Ghriss — 35.25°N, 0.15°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EArgiles de Lamoriciere — 34.90°N, 1.03°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WKcynia — 52.37°N, 19.34°E

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The named rock units Protocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocythere and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Protocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

456 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Protocythere, 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

9 references

Each of the 28 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 Protocythere

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

No 3D scan of Protocythere 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 itCytherettinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.