Clypeaster rogersi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClypeasterPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Clypeaster rogersi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
18 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
7 formations
- Suwannee Limestone Formation · Vicksburg Group5
- Marianna Limestone Formation5
- Marianna Formation · Vicksburg Group4
- Anahuac Formation1
- Chickasawhay Formation1
- River Bend Formation1
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The named rock units Clypeaster rogersi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clypeaster rogersi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Clypeaster rogersi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi2 sites
- Brissus2 sites
- Chione2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Lepidocyclina2 sites
- Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni2 sites
- Schizaster americana2 sites
- Agassizia1 site
- Anadara macneili1 site
- Antiguastrea cellulosa1 site
- Cassidulus gouldii1 site
- Cassis flintensis1 site
- Clypeaster cotteaui1 site
- Clypeaster meridanensis1 site
- Clypeaster oxybaphon1 site
- Clypeaster topilanus1 site
- Coskinolina1 site
- Dictyoconus1 site
- Ellipsechinus prisca1 site
- Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus1 site
- Eupatagus mexicanus1 site
- Ficus mississippiensis1 site
- Gagaria mossomi1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Clypeaster rogersi, 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
10 references- Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States8
- Diversity patterns and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic echinodems from Florida2
- Echinoid fauna from a Late Oligocene (Chattian) reef at Damon Mound, Brazoria County, Texas1
- Oligocene echinoids of North Carolina1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
- Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala1
- Summary of the geology of Florida and a guidebook to the classic exposures1
- Geology and ground-water resources of Choctaw County, Alabama1
- Mexican fossil echini1
- The Age of the Ocala Limestone1
Each of the 18 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 Clypeaster rogersi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clypeaster rogersi 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 itClypeaster through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1834)