Coelopleurus maculatus

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelopleurusPBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coelopleurus maculatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Coelopleurus maculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coelopleurus maculatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Coelopleurus maculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Conger1 site
- Conger durus1 site
- Gobius copiosus1 site
- Gobius urbanus1 site
- Temnopleurus (Toreumatica) reevesii1 site
- Temnotrema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coelopleurus maculatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Coelopleurus maculatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Didier Descouens
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coelopleurus maculatus 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 itCoelopleurus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz and Clark 1907