Cytoracia variabilis
No picture of Cytoracia variabilis 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 variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytoraciaPBDB
- 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 most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cytoracia variabilis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Cytoracia variabilis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Cytoracia variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Cribrospongia reticulata2 sites
- Laocoetis procumbens2 sites
- Sphenaulax costata2 sites
- Stauroderma lochense2 sites
- <Microbes>1 site
- Actinostromaria1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Amphibleptula jurassica1 site
- Anisocardia1 site
- Anisocardia globosa1 site
- Antiquilima1 site
- Arca (Arca)1 site
- Arca (Eonavicula) trisulcata1 site
- Arcomytilus1 site
- Astarte (Astarte)1 site
- Axosmilia1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) uhligi1 site
- Bigenerina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Burgundia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cytoracia variabilis, 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- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology1
- 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 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 content0
No picture of Cytoracia variabilis 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 variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cytoracia variabilis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCytoracia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kolb 1910)