Cidaris splendens
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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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
8 occurrences of Cidaris splendens on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
8 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Vincentown Formation · Rancocas Group6
- Clayton Formation1
- Salt Mountain Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Cidaris splendens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cidaris splendens and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Cidaris splendens and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
166 taxa- Arca3 sites
- Echinopsis diatreta3 sites
- Flabellum mortoni3 sites
- Graphularia3 sites
- Lamna3 sites
- Polorthus tibialis3 sites
- Rotularia3 sites
- Salenia tumidula3 sites
- Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus3 sites
- Tylocidaris walcotti3 sites
- Volutoderma3 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cavoscala annulata2 sites
- Cheilophis huerfanoensis2 sites
- Coscinopleura2 sites
- Echinocorys ovalis2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Gauthieria speciosa2 sites
- Gryphaea2 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer2 sites
- Hadranderaster asperulus2 sites
- Hemiaster parastatus2 sites
- Hemiaster stella2 sites
- Holaster cinctus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cidaris splendens, 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
5 references- Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States3
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary2
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Cidaris splendens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cidaris splendens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1841)