Cytherella symmetrica

Cytherella symmetrica

Ray H. Bate · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
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 232 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences312–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences298.9 Mya66 Mya312 Mya54 Mya

2 occurrences of Cytherella symmetrica on record. 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

2 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

2 formations

Wills Point — 31.71°N, 96.49°WHayden Branch — 39.16°N, 87.52°W

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

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cytherella symmetrica, 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 2 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 symmetrica

Source
GBIF
Credit
Ray H. Bate
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cytherella symmetrica 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. Payne 1937