Procytherura

Procytherura

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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 least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 14 of 17 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences184.2 Mya168.6 Mya193.4 Mya167.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Procytherura 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

17 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

5 formations

Djangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ESão Gião — 40.03°N, 8.47°WPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WTurmiel — 40.62°N, 2.46°W

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The named rock units Procytherura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procytherura and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Procytherura, 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

Each of the 17 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 Procytherura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procytherura 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. Whatley 1970