Gomphocythere
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LymnocytheridaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 65 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Gomphocythere on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous9%
- Miocene8%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene43%
- Holocene27%
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
4 formations
- Koobi Fora Formation4
- Galana Boi Formation1
- Nkondo Formation · Albertine Group1
- Varswater Formation · Sandveld Group1
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The named rock units Gomphocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gomphocythere and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gomphocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Darwinula stevensoni5 sites
- Hemicypris sp.4 sites
- Ilyocypris gibba4 sites
- Stenocypris sp.4 sites
- Cyprideis3 sites
- Cypris3 sites
- Limnocythere3 sites
- Plesiocypridopsis newtoni3 sites
- Synodontis3 sites
- Barbus2 sites
- Dasyatis africana2 sites
- Hippopotamus karumensis2 sites
- Hominidae2 sites
- Homo erectus2 sites
- Hydrocynus2 sites
- Hyperopsius sp.2 sites
- Labeo sp.2 sites
- Lymnocythere michaelseni2 sites
- Potamocypris producta2 sites
- Sclerocypris clavularis2 sites
- Sclerocypris jenkinae2 sites
- Sindacharax sp.2 sites
- Tetraodon2 sites
- Adenota recki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Gomphocythere, 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
7 references- Ostracodes as Indicators of Paleohydrochemistry in Lakes:A Late Quaternary Example from Lake Elmenteita,Kenya3
- Paleoenvironments of the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya2
- Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae2
- Upper Cretaceous intertrappean non-marine Ostracoda from Mohagaonkala (Mohgaon-Kalan), Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh State, Central India1
- Ostracods from Nkondo Formation,upper Miocene,lake Albert Basin,Uganda1
- K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya1
- A second assemblage of Pliocene invertebrate fossils from Langebaanweg, Cape1
Each of the 11 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 Gomphocythere 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 Gomphocythere, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gomphocythere 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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What may have been alongside itLymnocytheridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars 1924