Cidaris pratti
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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 least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
27 occurrences of Cidaris pratti 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
27 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
5 formations
- Santee Limestone Formation11
- Castle Hayne Formation11
- Tupelo Bay Formation2
- Yazoo Clay Formation1
- Cross Formation1
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The named rock units Cidaris pratti 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.
Cidaris pratti and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cidaris pratti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
223 taxa- Chlamys15 sites
- Linthia hanoverensis11 sites
- Ostrea10 sites
- Periarchus lyelli10 sites
- Protoscutella conradi10 sites
- Venericardia10 sites
- Cardiidae9 sites
- Fusinus9 sites
- Terebratulina9 sites
- Chama8 sites
- Conus8 sites
- Cypraea8 sites
- Flabellum8 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa8 sites
- Recurvaster8 sites
- Turritella8 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Cubitostrea7 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus7 sites
- Echinolampas appendiculata7 sites
- Eurhodia rugosa7 sites
- Eutrephoceras carolinensis7 sites
- Linthia wilmingtonensis7 sites
- Maretia7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cidaris pratti, 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
6 references- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap12
- The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina11
- Stratigraphy of outcropping Eocene and Oligocene formations-Coastal Plain of the Carolinas1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 27 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 Cidaris pratti
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cidaris pratti 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 itCidaris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark and Twitchell 1915