Cythara

Cythara is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Cythara

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MangeliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 26 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences56 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Cythara 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

26 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

14 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WLower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°EMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WSakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°ECresnes — 49.22°N, 1.97°E

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The named rock units Cythara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cythara and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cythara and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,927 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cythara, 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

16 references

Each of the 26 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Cythara

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Everything alive alongside itMangeliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)