Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi
No picture of Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OolopygusPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Navesink Formation · Monmouth Group2
- New Egypt Formation · Monmouth Group1
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The named rock units Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Belemnitella americana2 sites
- Cliona2 sites
- Pyropsis2 sites
- Agerostrea1 site
- Anchura pennata1 site
- Anomoeodus phaseolus1 site
- Baculites ovatus1 site
- Batoidea1 site
- Bernaya (Bernaya) burlingtonensis1 site
- Callianassa mortoni1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Choristothyris1 site
- Corsochelys1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Cucullaea vulgaris1 site
- Euspira halli1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata1 site
- Gryphaeostrea vomer1 site
- Gyrodes1 site
- Gyrodes abyssinus1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Ischyodus1 site
- Ischyrhiza mira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi, 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 the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary2
- American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi 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 itOolopygus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1907)