Apatopygus

Apatopygus is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Apatopygidae.

Apatopygus

Javier · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApatopygidaePBDB
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 most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56.5 Mya51.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Apatopygus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

6 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

3 formations

Te Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°WTe Whanga Limestone — 44.28°S, 176.77°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.96°S, 176.58°WTumaio Limestone — 43.75°S, 176.67°E

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The named rock units Apatopygus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Apatopygus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Apatopygus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Apatopygus, 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

Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Apatopygus

Credit
Javier
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Apatopygus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itApatopygidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawkins 1920