Encope

Encope is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Mellitidae.

Encope

porshunta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
MellitidaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 35 of 75 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 28 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences13.82 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Encope 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

75 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

23 formations

San Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WSan Marcos — 27.10°N, 113.75°WSan Marcos — 27.07°N, 111.98°WWaccamaw — 32.98°N, 79.89°WWaccamaw — 32.91°N, 79.95°WWaccamaw — 35.42°N, 77.44°WWaccamaw — 34.32°N, 78.52°WWaccamaw — 33.84°N, 78.68°WWaccamaw — 34.35°N, 78.18°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.99°N, 80.61°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.93°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WFerrotepec — 18.06°N, 102.36°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WImperial — 32.79°N, 116.05°WCastilletes — 11.86°N, 71.36°WSeroe Domi — 12.48°N, 69.96°WNashua — 29.52°N, 81.67°WAnastasia — 29.89°N, 81.29°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WSalada — 24.12°N, 111.02°WRaysor — 33.33°N, 80.15°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WWare — 11.89°N, 71.30°WBahía Inglesa — 27.14°S, 70.88°WZorritos — 3.65°S, 80.60°WSeroe Domi — 12.29°N, 69.06°W

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The named rock units Encope has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Encope and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Encope and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,091 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Encope, 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

27 references

Each of the 75 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. 15 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 content3

Picture of Encope

Credit
porshunta
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Encope michelini · TxVP:M:4113

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMellitidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1840