Pterygocythere

Pterygocythere

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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 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEocene112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106.3 Mya48.07 Mya112 Mya36 Mya

2 occurrences of Pterygocythere on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2 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

fahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°E

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The named rock units Pterygocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterygocythere and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pterygocythere, 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

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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Picture of Pterygocythere

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No 3D scan of Pterygocythere 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 itBrachycytheridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.