Parakrithe
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KrithidaePBDB
- 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 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
23 occurrences of Parakrithe on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Parakrithe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parakrithe and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parakrithe and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Bairdia4 sites
- Aurila3 sites
- Buntonia3 sites
- Costa3 sites
- Cytherella3 sites
- Cytherella vulgata3 sites
- Henryhowella asperrima3 sites
- Loxocorniculum3 sites
- Paracypris3 sites
- Xestoleberis3 sites
- Callistocythere2 sites
- Carinovalva rotundata2 sites
- Cnestocythere2 sites
- Grinioneis haidingeri2 sites
- Heliocythere vejhonensis2 sites
- Paracytheridea2 sites
- Pokornyella2 sites
- Pterigocythereis cornuta2 sites
- Ruggieria tetraptera2 sites
- Sagmatocythere2 sites
- Xestoleberis dispar2 sites
- Argilloecia1 site
- Cardobairdia1 site
- Carinovalva aquila1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Parakrithe, 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
6 references- Middle Miocene ostracods of the Fore-Carpathian Depression (Central Paratethys, southwestern Poland)7
- Late Miocene ostracod assemblages from eastern Mediterranean coral reef complexes (central Crete, Greece)6
- Preliminary stratigraphical investigations of the Miocene successions of the Porto Torres Basin (northern Sardinia, Italy)5
- Ostracodes paléogènes de quelques sites "D.S.D.P." de l'Océan Indien (legs 22 et 23)3
- Late Miocene-early Pliocene ostracods in a deep oceanic environment, Central Atlantic1
- Il Miocene Superiore dei dintorni di Salerno [The Upper Miocene of the Salerno region]1
Each of the 23 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 Parakrithe
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parakrithe 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 itKrithidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van den Bold 1960