Callistocythere

Callistocythere is a genus of ostracods. Some species are known from the fossil record.

Callistocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptocytheridaePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 121 of 123 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 123 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 123 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 10 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 13 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

123 occurrences of Callistocythere on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

123 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

5 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°EDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°ERosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°E

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The named rock units Callistocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callistocythere and its relatives

Miocene

Where Callistocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Callistocythere, 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

10 references

Each of the 123 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 Callistocythere

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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Callistocythere 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLeptocytheridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruggieri 1953