Cidaris mortoni
No picture of Cidaris mortoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Cidaris mortoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CidarisPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, omnivorePBDB, for Cidaroida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cidaroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Cidaroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cidaroida
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cidaris mortoni 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Inglis Limestone Formation · Ocala Group1
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The named rock units Cidaris mortoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cidaris mortoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cidaris mortoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Agaronia1 site
- Agassizia1 site
- Agnocardia claibornense1 site
- Ampullinopsis1 site
- Astraea1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Barbatia inglisia1 site
- Batillaria1 site
- Bellatara1 site
- Blagraveia1 site
- Callianax1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta1 site
- Cardita (Glans) scabricostata1 site
- Caricella1 site
- Cassidulus1 site
- Cassidulus (Cassidulus)1 site
- Cassidulus (Paralampas) lyelli1 site
- Conomitra1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corbula densata1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassatella eutawcolens1 site
- Cypraedia fenestralis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cidaris mortoni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Cidaris mortoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cidaris mortoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cidaris mortoni 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCidaris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1850)