Eocytheropteron

Eocytheropteron

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytheropterinaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cytheruridae

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 52 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 52 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.2 Mya11.63 Mya172 Mya2 Mya

52 occurrences of Eocytheropteron on record, most of them in the Early 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

52 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

13 formations

fahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ESanta Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EEutaw — 32.40°N, 85.37°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.81°N, 9.47°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.77°N, 9.30°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°WGrès inférieurs — 38.72°N, 9.45°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WPaluxy — 33.93°N, 97.12°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.50°W

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The named rock units Eocytheropteron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eocytheropteron and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Eocytheropteron and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

548 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Eocytheropteron, 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

14 references

Each of the 52 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Eocytheropteron

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Eocytheropteron 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 itCytheropterinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Alexander 1933)