Trachyleberis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrachyleberidinaePBDB
- 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 78 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
57 occurrences of Trachyleberis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
57 occurrences- Late Cretaceous18%
- Paleocene35%
- Eocene28%
- Miocene14%
- Pliocene5%
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
18 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group7
- Yazoo Formation5
- Brasso Formation4
- Calcaires marneux du Santonien Formation4
- Capay Formation3
- Roca Formation3
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The named rock units Trachyleberis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trachyleberis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Trachyleberis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
512 taxa- Cytherella24 sites
- Paracypris14 sites
- Bairdia11 sites
- Xestoleberis11 sites
- Buntonia10 sites
- Loxoconcha10 sites
- Cythereis9 sites
- Henryhowella9 sites
- Actinocythereis indigena8 sites
- Bairdoppilata8 sites
- Brachycythere8 sites
- Cytherelloidea8 sites
- Hermanites8 sites
- Huantraiconella prima8 sites
- Wichmannella meridionalis8 sites
- Argilloecia abnormalis7 sites
- Cytheretta alexanderi7 sites
- Cytheropteron7 sites
- Keijia huantraicoensis7 sites
- Paracypris bertelsae7 sites
- Petalocythereis schilleri7 sites
- Actinocythereis rex6 sites
- Clithrocytheridea6 sites
- Cushmanidea6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Trachyleberis, 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
21 references- Ostracoda from the Paleocene of Trinidad8
- New genera and species of Ostracoda from the Maastrichtian and Danian of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina6
- Ostracodes et foraminifères du Crétace supérieur du synclinal d'El Koubbat, moyen Atlas, Maroc5
- Jackson Eocene Ostracoda from the Cocoa Sand of Alabama5
- Ostracoda of the Brasso Formation of Trinidad4
- Palaeo-oceanographical implications of Early-Middle Miocene subtropical ostracod faunas from the continental shelf of the SE Atlantic Ocean3
- Données nouvelles biochronologiques et paléoécologiques sur le bassin sédimentaire côtier du Bénin entre le Crétacé supérieur et l'Éocène basal (Afrique de l'ouest)3
- Eocene ostracode fauna from Marysville Buttes, California3
- Marine Pliocene at Resolution Island, Dusky Sound, Fiordland (S156)3
- Distribution and affinities of the ostracod fauna of the Tiyon Formation (Middle Eocene) of Laki Range, Sindh2
- Type specimens of Maastrichtian fossils in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden2
- Microfauna del Cretácico superior y del Terciárico.2
Each of the 57 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Trachyleberis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trachyleberis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrachyleberidinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.