Stigmatocythere
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PodocopidaPBDB
- 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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
6 occurrences of Stigmatocythere on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Stigmatocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stigmatocythere and its relatives
EoceneWhere Stigmatocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Cytherella5 sites
- Bairdoppilata4 sites
- Brachycythere3 sites
- Cytherura3 sites
- Krithe3 sites
- Trachyleberis3 sites
- Xestoleberis3 sites
- Ambostracon2 sites
- Argilloecia2 sites
- Australileberis sp.2 sites
- Australoecia2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Bairdoppilata poddari2 sites
- Buntonia2 sites
- Chrysocythere2 sites
- Coquimba2 sites
- Crenaleya2 sites
- Cytherois2 sites
- Cytheropteron2 sites
- Eucytherura2 sites
- Falsocythere maccagnoi2 sites
- Haughtonileberis2 sites
- Henryhowella2 sites
- Idiocythere2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stigmatocythere, 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- Distribution and affinities of the ostracod fauna of the Tiyon Formation (Middle Eocene) of Laki Range, Sindh4
- Palaeo-oceanographical implications of Early-Middle Miocene subtropical ostracod faunas from the continental shelf of the SE Atlantic Ocean2
Each of the 6 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 Stigmatocythere
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stigmatocythere 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPodocopida through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.