Cativella

Cativella

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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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 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 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

33 occurrences of Cativella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

33 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

7 formations

La Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.10°WLa Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.20°WLa Rosa — 10.57°N, 71.15°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 70.80°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.02°WTubará — 10.87°N, 74.98°WBrasso — 10.32°N, 61.28°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WCibao Marl — 18.38°N, 66.98°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WGatun — 9.37°N, 79.85°W

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

Cativella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cativella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cativella, 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

6 references

Each of the 33 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cativella

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Fields 1937