Clarkiella hemispherica
No picture of Clarkiella hemispherica 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 Clarkiella hemispherica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarduiniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Cassiduloida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cassiduloida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Cassiduloida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Clarkiella hemispherica 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
4 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
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The named rock units Clarkiella hemispherica 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.
Clarkiella hemispherica and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Clarkiella hemispherica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Austinocrinus cubensis1 site
- Catopygus rodriguezi1 site
- Hardouinia mcglameryae1 site
- Lanieria lanieri1 site
- Salenia ameri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Clarkiella hemispherica, 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- American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea2
- Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
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 content0
No picture of Clarkiella hemispherica 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 Clarkiella hemispherica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clarkiella hemispherica 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 itHarduinia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Slocum 1909)