Amblypygus

Amblypygus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinoneidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya19.7 Mya

13 occurrences of Amblypygus 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

13 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

Crystal River Limestone — 30.05°N, 83.18°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.93°N, 82.70°WFalaises de Fresco — 5.08°N, 5.62°WMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°EArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°W

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The named rock units Amblypygus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amblypygus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Amblypygus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Amblypygus, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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 Amblypygus

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

No 3D scan of Amblypygus 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 itEchinoneidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1840