Podocopida

The Podocopida are an order of ostracods in the subclass Podocopa. It is the most diverse of the five orders of ostracods, and the only one with freshwater species. The group also has a rich fossil record.

Podocopida

Markus Lindholm, Anders Hobæk, Norsk institutt for vannforskning · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 477 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovician — about 264 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 146 of 12000 occurrencesDevonian — about 725 of 12000 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 574 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3844 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 424 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 198 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 133 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1506 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 363 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 103 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 409 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 273 of 12000 occurrencesPaleocene — about 140 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 403 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 318 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 1792 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 173 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 172 of 12000 occurrences496–480 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences480–463 Mya — about 29 occurrences463–447 Mya — about 230 occurrences447–430 Mya — about 25 occurrences430–413 Mya — about 189 occurrences413–397 Mya — about 111 occurrences397–380 Mya — about 252 occurrences380–364 Mya — about 286 occurrences364–347 Mya — about 62 occurrences347–331 Mya — about 168 occurrences331–314 Mya — about 78 occurrences314–298 Mya — about 289 occurrences298–281 Mya — about 838 occurrences281–265 Mya — about 465 occurrences265–248 Mya — about 2883 occurrences248–232 Mya — about 295 occurrences232–215 Mya — about 14 occurrences215–198 Mya — about 202 occurrences198–182 Mya — about 913 occurrences182–165 Mya — about 771 occurrences165–149 Mya — about 178 occurrences149–132 Mya — about 62 occurrences132–116 Mya — about 179 occurrences116–99 Mya — about 170 occurrences99–83 Mya — about 121 occurrences83–66 Mya — about 149 occurrences66–50 Mya — about 196 occurrences50–33 Mya — about 365 occurrences33–17 Mya — about 632 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 1847 occurrences477.1 Mya11.7 ka496 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Podocopida on record. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 435 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 26.15°N, 105.29°EChangxing — 26.33°N, 105.93°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EGliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EHolmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EQixia — 30.64°N, 110.75°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.77°N, 24.23°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.82°N, 23.93°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.48°N, 24.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.67°N, 24.25°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.25°N, 25.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.93°N, 23.28°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.78°N, 21.83°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.67°N, 21.75°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.52°N, 24.13°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.55°N, 22.80°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.67°N, 24.17°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.25°N, 22.27°ENagyvisnyo — 48.10°N, 20.47°ENagyvisnyo — 48.14°N, 20.43°ENagyvisnyo — 48.15°N, 20.50°ENagyvisnyo — 48.15°N, 20.44°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYazoo — 31.92°N, 88.40°WWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°EWujiaping — 31.69°N, 104.43°EBrian de Vère — 44.07°N, 1.74°ETurmiel — 40.63°N, 1.22°WTurmiel — 40.62°N, 2.46°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°ETulong — 28.46°N, 86.10°ETulong — 28.44°N, 86.14°ELa Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.02°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.10°WLa Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.20°WLa Rosa — 10.57°N, 71.15°WLa Rosa — 10.52°N, 71.22°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 70.80°WDalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°EDalong — 25.73°N, 117.74°ELares Limestone — 18.37°N, 67.00°WVale das Fontes — 40.03°N, 8.47°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 26.25°N, 44.82°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 45.17°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 22.17°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WElmdale — 39.17°N, 96.54°WDaye — 25.57°N, 106.66°EMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 78.85°WMoscow — 42.87°N, 78.83°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.45°WMoscow — 43.00°N, 78.30°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°Wfahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°E

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The named rock units Podocopida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 411 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,472 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

2,363 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 499 sites for Podocopida, and this reads 240 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

at least 392 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 380 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 Podocopida

Credit
Markus Lindholm, Anders Hobæk, Norsk institutt for vannforskning
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Podocopida 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Sars 1866