Echinometra lucunter

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- EchinometraPBDB
- 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 least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Echinometra lucunter on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene28%
- Pliocene38%
- Pleistocene33%
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
6 formations
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Nashua Formation1
- Mao Adentro Formation1
- Falmouth Formation · Coastal Group1
- Sign Formation · White Limestone Group1
- Seroe Domi Formation1
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The named rock units Echinometra lucunter has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Echinometra lucunter and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Echinometra lucunter and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Clypeaster3 sites
- Spatangoida2 sites
- Agassizia porifera1 site
- Arbacia waccamaw1 site
- Argopecten anteamplicostata1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Astreopora goethalsi1 site
- Astrocoenia incrustans1 site
- Astropecten1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Balanus niveus1 site
- Bothrocorbula wilcoxii1 site
- Brissopsis1 site
- Brissus glenni1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Caribachlamys guayubinensis1 site
- Chelonibia1 site
- Chelonibia testudinaria1 site
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum1 site
- Clypeaster carrizoensis1 site
- Clypeaster rosaceus1 site
- Clypeaster subdepressus1 site
- Columbella rusticoides1 site
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Echinometra lucunter, 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
4 references- Diversity patterns and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic echinodems from Florida2
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic. 13. The Class Echinoidea (Echinodermata)2
- Lower Miocene echinoderms of Jamaica, West Indies1
- Neogene and Quaternary geology of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Echinometra lucunter
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hans Hillewaert
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Echinometra lucunter 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 itEchinometra through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)