Brissopsis luzonica

Brissopsis luzonica is a species of sea urchins of the family Brissidae. Their armour is covered with spines. Brissopsis luzonica was first scientifically described in 1851 by Gray.

Brissopsis luzonica

Jimi N, Kimura T, Ogawa A, Kajihara H (2018) A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from t… · 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
BrissopsisPBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Brissopsis luzonica 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

4 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

2 formations

Koshiba — 35.33°N, 139.63°EKoshiba — 35.31°N, 139.53°EPadowa Beds — 10.43°S, 150.27°E

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The named rock units Brissopsis luzonica 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

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Brissopsis luzonica, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Brissopsis luzonica

Credit
Jimi N, Kimura T, Ogawa A, Kajihara H (2018) A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from t…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brissopsis luzonica 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.

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.

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What may have been alongside itBrissopsis through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1851