Cyamocytheridea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytherideinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cytherideidae
Time the record covers
At least 50 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
31 occurrences of Cyamocytheridea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
31 occurrences- Late Cretaceous2%
- Paleocene5%
- Eocene16%
- Miocene77%
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
4 formations
- Gliwice Formation10
- Yazoo Formation5
- Loncoche Formation · Malargüe Group1
- Roca Formation1
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The named rock units Cyamocytheridea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyamocytheridea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cyamocytheridea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Actinocythereis5 sites
- Acuticythereis5 sites
- Archicythereis5 sites
- Brachycythere watervalleyensis5 sites
- Buntonia shubutaensis5 sites
- Clithrocytheridea5 sites
- Cushmanidea5 sites
- Cytheretta alexanderi5 sites
- Cytheridea garretti5 sites
- Cytheridea grigsbyi5 sites
- Cytheridea montgomeryensis5 sites
- Cytheropteron montgomeryensis5 sites
- Henryhowella5 sites
- Hermanites5 sites
- Konarocythere5 sites
- Trachyleberis5 sites
- Triginglymus5 sites
- Cytherelloidea4 sites
- Absonocytheropteron3 sites
- Cytheromorpha3 sites
- Echinocythereis3 sites
- Loxoconcha3 sites
- Loxoconcha jacksonensis3 sites
- Brachycythere2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cyamocytheridea, 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
5 references- Late Miocene ostracod assemblages from eastern Mediterranean coral reef complexes (central Crete, Greece)14
- Middle Miocene ostracods of the Fore-Carpathian Depression (Central Paratethys, southwestern Poland)10
- Jackson Eocene Ostracoda from the Cocoa Sand of Alabama5
- Microfauna del Cretácico superior y del Terciárico.1
- Ostracodes of the type locality of the Lower Tertiary (lower Danian) Rocanian Stage and Roca Formation of Argentina1
Each of the 31 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 Cyamocytheridea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyamocytheridea 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 itCytherideinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.