Echinogalerus

Echinogalerus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HolectypoidaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holectypoida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holectypoida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holectypoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 56 of 57 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 57 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 9 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 9 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

57 occurrences of Echinogalerus 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

57 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

12 formations

Cabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.79°WCabo de Lata — 42.84°N, 2.18°WGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°EWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 0.18°EVaals — 50.73°N, 5.67°EB3/C1 — 45.93°N, 0.98°WArén — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECraie glauconieuse — 48.84°N, 0.13°EFalaises de Fresco — 5.08°N, 5.62°W

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The named rock units Echinogalerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinogalerus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Echinogalerus, 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

14 references

Each of the 57 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. 2 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 Echinogalerus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Echinogalerus 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 itHolectypoida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.