Agassizia clevei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgassiziaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Spatangoida
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
2 occurrences of Agassizia clevei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Agassizia clevei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Agassizia clevei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Agassizia clevei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Anthozoa1 site
- Asteroidea indet.1 site
- Balanomorpha1 site
- Basilosaurus1 site
- Callianassa inglisestris1 site
- Caryapollenites1 site
- Celtipollenites1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Clypeaster topilanus1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Diodontidae1 site
- Durhamella1 site
- Echinocyamus vaughani1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Ephedripites1 site
- Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus1 site
- Eupatagus antillarum1 site
- Euspatangus clevei1 site
- Foveotricolpites prolatus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Halodule1 site
- Kathpalmeria georgiana1 site
- Lanagiopollis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Agassizia clevei, 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
2 references- Paleoecology of shallow-marine carbonate environments, middle Eocene of Peninsular Florida1
- Mexican fossil echini1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Agassizia clevei
- 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 of Agassizia clevei 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAgassizia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau 1875