Cytherella muensteri

Cytherella muensteri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherellaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Platycopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEocene95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya41.03 Mya95 Mya37 Mya

3 occurrences of Cytherella muensteri on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

3 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

3 formations

Barton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WTeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°EKorycany — 50.49°N, 13.75°E

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

Cytherella muensteri and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cytherella muensteri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cytherella muensteri, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 Cytherella muensteri

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

No 3D scan of Cytherella muensteri 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 itCytherella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1851