Isocythereis

No picture of Isocythereis 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 Isocythereis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachyleberididaePBDB
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 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93.9 Mya11.63 Mya115 Mya3 Mya

5 occurrences of Isocythereis 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

5 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

4 formations

Tubará — 10.87°N, 74.98°WZebbeus — 36.18°N, 8.72°ELizard Springs — 10.22°N, 61.13°WPalermo Aike — 50.75°S, 70.33°W

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The named rock units Isocythereis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Isocythereis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Isocythereis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Isocythereis, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Isocythereis 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 Isocythereis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Isocythereis 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 itTrachyleberididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.