Echinocyamus polymorpha

Echinocyamus polymorpha

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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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41.03 Mya23.04 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Echinocyamus polymorpha on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

8 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

2 formations

Dammam — 25.51°N, 50.84°EDammam — 25.29°N, 50.92°EDammam — 25.27°N, 51.43°ETagpochau — 15.18°N, 145.76°E

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The named rock units Echinocyamus polymorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Echinocyamus polymorpha and its relatives

Eocene

Where Echinocyamus polymorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Echinocyamus polymorpha, 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

Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Echinocyamus polymorpha

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Echinocyamus polymorpha 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 itEchinocyamus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan and Sladen 1883)