Monoceratina

Monoceratina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BythocytheridaePBDB
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 361 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 260 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 33 of 260 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 39 of 260 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 30 of 260 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 22 of 260 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 260 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 76 of 260 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 21 of 260 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 260 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 260 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 260 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 260 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 260 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 260 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 260 occurrences395–382 Mya — about 7 occurrences382–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–331 Mya — about 5 occurrences331–318 Mya — about 10 occurrences318–305 Mya — about 7 occurrences305–292 Mya — about 18 occurrences292–279 Mya — about 10 occurrences279–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–254 Mya — about 12 occurrences254–241 Mya — about 53 occurrences241–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences215–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–189 Mya — about 9 occurrences189–176 Mya — about 56 occurrences176–163 Mya — about 30 occurrences163–150 Mya — about 10 occurrences137–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences382.31 Mya20.45 Mya395 Mya9 Mya

260 occurrences of Monoceratina on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

260 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

58 formations

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EKokarkuyu — 36.69°N, 30.46°EJohns Valley — 34.73°N, 95.35°WJohns Valley — 34.79°N, 96.00°WJohns Valley — 34.79°N, 95.02°WJohns Valley — 34.50°N, 95.63°WJohns Valley — 34.59°N, 95.89°WJohns Valley — 34.67°N, 95.89°WJohns Valley — 34.75°N, 95.75°WJohns Valley — 34.67°N, 95.65°WVale das Fontes — 40.03°N, 8.47°WUzum Bair — 45.07°N, 28.78°EBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WMarelb — 45.07°N, 28.78°EHolmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°ESão Gião — 40.03°N, 8.47°WKalinovka — 51.83°N, 54.12°EKalinovka — 52.78°N, 52.26°EKalinovka — 53.69°N, 53.65°EKalinovka — 54.03°N, 52.93°EKalinovka — 52.92°N, 52.87°EKalinovka — 53.00°N, 53.29°ESilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WNaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.92°N, 23.33°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.78°N, 21.83°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°ESecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WRenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WWreford — 39.08°N, 96.78°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.91°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.84°WKössen — 47.55°N, 12.17°ENagyvisnyo — 48.14°N, 20.43°EZalgiris — 54.62°N, 21.20°EZalgiris — 55.03°N, 20.62°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ECabaços — 39.91°N, 8.95°WNeva — 38.37°N, 96.62°W

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The named rock units Monoceratina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monoceratina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Monoceratina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 208 sites for Monoceratina, 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

51 references

Each of the 260 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. 39 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 Monoceratina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Monoceratina 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 itBythocytheridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth 1928