Kerocythere

Kerocythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherurinaePBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 19 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 19 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 15 of 19 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 5 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251.1 Mya205.7 Mya253 Mya200 Mya

19 occurrences of Kerocythere on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

19 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

10 formations

Huglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°ETor — 46.43°N, 13.57°ENayband — 31.15°N, 52.65°EZafir — 32.14°N, 34.98°ERio del Lago — 46.43°N, 13.57°EConzen — 46.43°N, 13.57°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°ELuolou — 24.59°N, 106.88°EKössen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EQuattervals — 46.59°N, 10.15°E

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

Kerocythere and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Kerocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Kerocythere, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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

Media content1

Picture of Kerocythere

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.