Procytheridea

Procytheridea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtocytherinaePBDB
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 181 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 19 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 11 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 19 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 19 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–177 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 8 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.2 Mya2.58 Mya197 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Procytheridea on record, most of them in the Middle 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

19 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

Dhruma — 26.25°N, 44.82°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EDuvalia Marl — 22.98°S, 44.40°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°E

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The named rock units Procytheridea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procytheridea and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Procytheridea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Procytheridea, 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

7 references

Each of the 19 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 Procytheridea

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No 3D scan of Procytheridea 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 itProtocytherinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.