Ambocythere

Ambocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachyleberididaePBDB
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 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya7.246 Mya34.5 Mya3 Mya

10 occurrences of Ambocythere on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

10 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

2 formations

Alazán — 21.07°N, 97.63°WAlazán — 21.20°N, 97.73°WAlazán — 21.10°N, 97.72°WAlazán — 20.93°N, 97.60°WBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.35°W

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The named rock units Ambocythere 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.

Ambocythere and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ambocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ambocythere, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 Ambocythere

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

No 3D scan of Ambocythere 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 itTrachyleberididae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.