Elliptocinctus barrandei
Dr Richard P. S Jefferies · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- ElliptocinctusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cincta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cincta
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cincta
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Cincta
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 494.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Elliptocinctus barrandei on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Elliptocinctus barrandei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elliptocinctus barrandei and its relatives
CambrianWhere Elliptocinctus barrandei and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Sucocystis theronensis2 sites
- Bailiella levyi1 site
- Cambraster cannati1 site
- Cambrocrinus1 site
- Ceratocystis1 site
- Ctenocephalus1 site
- Ctenocystis smithi1 site
- Davidocinctus pembrokensis1 site
- Diplorrhina1 site
- Eocystites1 site
- Gogia1 site
- Gyrocystis platessa1 site
- Homagnostus obesus1 site
- Leiagnostus1 site
- Liosolenopleura1 site
- Olenus1 site
- Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides)1 site
- Pembrocystis gallica1 site
- Protocystites1 site
- Solenopleuropsis1 site
- Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) verdiagana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Elliptocinctus barrandei, 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
5 references- Testing for a decline in diversity prior to extinction: Languedocian (latest mid‐Cambrian) distribution of cinctans (Echinodermata) in the Iberian Chains, NE Spain2
- Les Echinodermes Cincta du Cambriende la Montagne Noire (France)2
- Field trip: Palaeozoic echinoderms from Northern Spain1
- The first Furongian (late Cambrian) echinoderm from the British Isles1
- Révision biostratigraphique du Cambrien moyen du versant méridional de la Montagne Noire (Languedoc, France)1
Each of the 7 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 Elliptocinctus barrandei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Richard P. S Jefferies
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Elliptocinctus barrandei 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 itElliptocinctus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munier-Chalmas et al. 1889)