Spongicythere

Spongicythere

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachyleberididaePBDB
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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligocene73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya33.9 Mya73.1 Mya26.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Spongicythere on record. 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

2 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

1 formation

Huasteca — 21.50°N, 98.03°W

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The named rock units Spongicythere has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spongicythere, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Spongicythere

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spongicythere 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.