Cytheridea purperae
No picture of Cytheridea purperae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cytheridea purperae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytherideaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cytherideidae
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Cytheridea purperae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
15 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Pirabas Formation · Barreiras Group15
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The named rock units Cytheridea purperae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cytheridea purperae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cytheridea purperae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Cytheridea coimbrai15 sites
- Haplocytheridea variopunctata15 sites
- Haplocytheridea pirabasensis9 sites
- Haplocytheridea8 sites
- Haplocytheridea placentiaensis7 sites
- Haplocytheridea sandbergi5 sites
- Cytheridea pirabasensis4 sites
- Haplocytheridea dacica elegantior4 sites
- Haplocytheridea sinuosa3 sites
- Haplocytheridea larosaensis2 sites
- Haplocytheridea hopkinsi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cytheridea purperae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 15 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cytheridea purperae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cytheridea purperae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cytheridea purperae 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 itCytheridea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nogueira et al. 2011