Cythereis

Cythereis

Anonymous Unknown author · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
TrachyleberidinaePBDB
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 254 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 1 of 302 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 302 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 302 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 302 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 302 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 302 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 302 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 64 of 302 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 302 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 33 of 302 occurrencesEocene — about 122 of 302 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 302 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 302 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 302 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 302 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–124 Mya — about 10 occurrences124–115 Mya — about 9 occurrences115–106 Mya — about 11 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 33 occurrences97–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–80 Mya — about 12 occurrences80–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–62 Mya — about 37 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 24 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 47 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 54 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 16 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 29 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences254.14 Mya129 ka265 Mya0 Mya

302 occurrences of Cythereis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

302 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

43 formations

La Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.02°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.10°WLa Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.20°WLa Rosa — 10.57°N, 71.15°WLa Rosa — 10.52°N, 71.22°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 70.80°WDenton — 32.75°N, 97.25°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.52°N, 97.17°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°Wfahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WReklaw — 30.02°N, 97.27°WCalcaires marneux du Santonien — 33.10°N, 5.30°WYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WChoctawhatchee — 30.52°N, 86.48°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WOued Izem — 33.10°N, 5.30°WWills Point — 31.71°N, 96.49°WPaluxy — 33.93°N, 97.12°WNariva — 10.32°N, 61.47°WGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.77°N, 9.30°WGatun — 9.37°N, 79.85°WZebbeus — 36.18°N, 8.72°ELizard Springs — 10.22°N, 61.13°WSan Sebastián — 18.35°N, 67.00°WKincaid — 30.18°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 29.94°N, 97.74°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 91.90°WJaguel — 39.00°S, 67.55°W

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The named rock units Cythereis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 119 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cythereis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cythereis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

840 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Cythereis, 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

38 references

Each of the 302 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. 26 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 Cythereis

Credit
Anonymous Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cythereis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jones 1849)