Echinocyamus parvus
No picture of Echinocyamus parvus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Echinocyamus parvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchinocyamusPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Echinocyamus parvus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Castle Hayne Formation · Jackson Group5
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The named rock units Echinocyamus parvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Echinocyamus parvus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Echinocyamus parvus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Periarchus lyelli4 sites
- Cidaris pratti2 sites
- Druidia wilsoni2 sites
- Echinolampas appendiculata2 sites
- Linthia hanoverensis2 sites
- Maretia2 sites
- Unifascia carolinensis2 sites
- Agassizia (Anisaster) wilmingtonica1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argyrotheca quadrata1 site
- Bactronella womblei1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Basilosauridae1 site
- Chlamys cushmani1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cliona1 site
- Coelopleurus carolinensis1 site
- Coelopleurus infulatus1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Echinocyamus bisexus1 site
- Eupatagus carolinensis1 site
- Eupatagus lawsonae1 site
- Eupatagus wilsoni1 site
- Eurhodia rugosa ideali1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Echinocyamus parvus, 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
2 references- The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina4
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Echinocyamus parvus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Echinocyamus parvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Echinocyamus parvus 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 itEchinocyamus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emmonds 1858