Cytoracia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytoraciinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 77 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
15 occurrences of Cytoracia 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cytoracia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cytoracia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cytoracia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
437 taxa- Phymatella bulbosa4 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli4 sites
- Verruculina tenuis4 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa3 sites
- Coelocorypha subglobosa3 sites
- Cystispongia morchella3 sites
- Jereica punctata3 sites
- Laocoetis vulgata3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
- Ozotrachelus conicus3 sites
- Pachinion3 sites
- Pachinion scriptum3 sites
- Porifera3 sites
- Seliscothon3 sites
- Siphonia3 sites
- Spondylus3 sites
- Stachyspongia tuberculosa3 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte)2 sites
- Amphithelion cupula2 sites
- Ancistrocrania2 sites
- Anthophyllum2 sites
- Astrobolia2 sites
- Botroclonium arborescens2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cytoracia, 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
6 references- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]9
- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)2
- The La Voulte Lagerstätte (Callovian): Evidence for a deep water setting from sponge and crinoid communities1
- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology1
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- Kieselschwämme und Schwamm-Ökologie im Korallenkalk des oberen Malm von Laisacker bei Neuburg an der Donau [Siliceous sponges and sponge ecology in the coral limestones from the Upper Jurassic of Laisacker near Neuburg/Donau]1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Cytoracia 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 Cytoracia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cytoracia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCytoraciinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1872