Otocythere

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytheruridaePBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 27 of 34 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences184.7 Mya170.4 Mya

34 occurrences of Otocythere 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

34 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

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Otocythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otocythere and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Otocythere, 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 34 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Otocythere was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCytheruridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.