Cytherella ovata

Cytherella ovata

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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 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesOligocene115–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–106 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110.1 Mya33.9 Mya115 Mya26 Mya

18 occurrences of Cytherella ovata 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

18 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

5 formations

fahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ETeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°ETeplice — 50.53°N, 13.80°ETeplice — 50.67°N, 13.84°EBřezno — 50.40°N, 13.42°EBřezno — 50.38°N, 13.77°EPaluxy — 33.93°N, 97.12°WBrežno — 50.04°N, 15.69°E

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The named rock units Cytherella ovata 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.

Cytherella ovata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cytherella ovata, 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

Each of the 18 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 Cytherella ovata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cytherella ovata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. (Roemer 1841)