Codiopsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArbaciidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Arbaciidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arbaciidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arbaciidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
38 occurrences of Codiopsis 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
38 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Maastricht Formation8
- Tamanar Formation2
- Maastricht Formation2
- Alikper Formation1
- Collades de Basturs Formation1
- Arén Formation1
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The named rock units Codiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Codiopsis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Codiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
364 taxa- Goniopygus15 sites
- Hemiaster10 sites
- Echinogalerus8 sites
- Hyposalenia8 sites
- Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)7 sites
- Coenholectypus excisus6 sites
- Periaster6 sites
- Phymosoma6 sites
- Pygaulus6 sites
- Tetragramma variolare6 sites
- Catopygus5 sites
- Cidaris5 sites
- Goniopygus menardi5 sites
- Orthopsis miliaris5 sites
- Temnocidaris baylei5 sites
- Archiacia sandalina4 sites
- Coenholectypus4 sites
- Hemicidaris4 sites
- Hemipneustes striatoradiatus4 sites
- Heteraster4 sites
- Polydiadema4 sites
- Porifera4 sites
- Rhynchonella4 sites
- Salenia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Codiopsis, 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
18 references- Arbacioid echinoids from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and the Netherlands7
- Paléoécologie et paléobiogéographie des faunes d'échinides du Cénomanien nord-aquitain (Charente-Maritime, France)6
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois4
- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids3
- Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal)3
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco)2
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)2
- Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt1
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)1
- Palaeoecological implications of Upper Cretaceous solitary corals, United Arab Emirates/Oman Borders1
- The middle Cenomanian basal series of Planinica, Western Serbia1
- Echinoids from the geological site at Tercis les Bains (Landes, SW France)1
Each of the 38 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Codiopsis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Codiopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itArbaciidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.