Semicytherura

Semicytherura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherurinaePBDB
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 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 155 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 155 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 155 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 155 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 155 occurrencesMiocene — about 122 of 155 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 155 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 155 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 9 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 46 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 66 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

155 occurrences of Semicytherura on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

155 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

8 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EJagüel — 38.17°S, 68.67°WJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 39.77°S, 66.68°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°ERoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°ETakikawa — 43.56°N, 141.95°ELa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WJaguel — 39.00°S, 67.55°W

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The named rock units Semicytherura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Semicytherura and its relatives

Miocene

Where Semicytherura and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

540 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Semicytherura, 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

15 references

Each of the 155 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. 3 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 Semicytherura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.