Echinocorys

Echinocorys is an extinct genus of echinoids that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene. The genus belongs to the Holasteridae family. Its remains have been found in Asia, Europe, Australia (Oceania) and North America.

Echinocorys

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
EchinocorythidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holasteroida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Holasteroida

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 167 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 167 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 142 of 167 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 167 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 167 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 7 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 9 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 21 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 24 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 24 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 24 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 13 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 12 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 7 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences89.8 Mya59.24 Mya145 Mya54 Mya

167 occurrences of Echinocorys 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

167 occurrences

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

33 formations

Ahlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.00°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EAnnona Chalk — 33.57°N, 94.94°WAnnona Chalk — 33.80°N, 94.06°WAnnona Chalk — 33.62°N, 94.99°WAnnona Chalk — 33.65°N, 94.93°WAnnona Chalk — 33.71°N, 94.40°WGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°ECabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.80°WCabo de Lata — 42.91°N, 1.78°WBruderndorf — 48.53°N, 16.33°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EOlazagutia — 42.88°N, 2.20°WAnacacho — 29.36°N, 99.31°WAnacacho — 29.34°N, 99.30°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.75°WTaylor Marl — 30.92°N, 97.24°WTaylor Marl — 32.73°N, 96.47°WTaylor Marl — 31.48°N, 96.87°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 50.70°N, 3.10°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.97°WCraie de Sens — 48.30°N, 3.23°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°EVila Vella — 42.17°N, 0.90°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°EDatskiy — 38.43°N, 57.12°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WVaals — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.68°ECraie de Meudon — 48.82°N, 2.23°EAnseroles — 42.25°N, 0.97°ETexanitid Marls — 42.17°N, 0.90°EHerba-savina Clays — 42.17°N, 0.90°EMontesquiu — 42.17°N, 0.90°E

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The named rock units Echinocorys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinocorys and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Echinocorys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Echinocorys, 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

42 references

Each of the 167 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. 30 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 content2

Picture of Echinocorys

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
Commercial use
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEchinocorythidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leske 1778