Amphicytherura

Amphicytherura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchizocytherinaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene114–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya72.2 Mya114 Mya61 Mya

9 occurrences of Amphicytherura 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

9 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

3 formations

fahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EZebbag — 34.12°N, 9.03°EJaguel — 39.00°S, 67.55°W

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The named rock units Amphicytherura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Amphicytherura and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Amphicytherura, 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 9 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 Amphicytherura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amphicytherura 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 itSchizocytherinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butler and Jones 1957