Limnocythere

Limnocythere

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 27 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Limnocythere 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

27 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

9 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.89°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WLealt Shale — 56.92°N, 6.15°WNomogen — 43.53°N, 111.73°ELa Rosa — 10.52°N, 71.22°WBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EKalisindh — 22.48°N, 75.12°ENaran Bulak — 43.46°N, 101.48°EAlturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°W

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The named rock units Limnocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limnocythere and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Limnocythere and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

367 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Limnocythere, 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

18 references

Each of the 27 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. 6 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 Limnocythere

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Limnocythere 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady 1868