Echinolampas anguillae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchinolampasPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Echinolampas anguillae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 Echinolampas anguillae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Echinolampas anguillae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Echinolampas anguillae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Antillipecten anguillensis1 site
- Argopecten thetidis1 site
- Diplothecanthus1 site
- Flabellipecten antiguensis1 site
- Interchlamys interlineata1 site
- Metalia1 site
- Pecten nugenti1 site
- Pycnodonte (Crenostrea) antiguensis1 site
- Schizaster1 site
- Sismondia1 site
- Spondylus1 site
- Sthenorhytis antiguense1 site
- Turritella forresti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Echinolampas anguillae, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 Echinolampas anguillae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Echinolampas anguillae 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 itEchinolampas through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau 1875