Gauthieria speciosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GauthieriaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Phymosomatoida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gauthieria speciosa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
4 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
- Vincentown Formation · Rancocas Group4
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The named rock units Gauthieria speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gauthieria speciosa and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Gauthieria speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Hemiaster parastatus3 sites
- Holaster cinctus3 sites
- Salenia tumidula3 sites
- Cidaris splendens2 sites
- Echinopsis diatreta2 sites
- Hemiaster stella2 sites
- Rhopostoma crucifer2 sites
- Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus2 sites
- Tylocidaris walcotti2 sites
- <Callianassid>1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Amtaaguar crassus1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argyrotheca beecheri1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Bathytormus alaeformis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calappilia1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Calyptraphorus jacksoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gauthieria speciosa, 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
3 references- Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States2
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Gauthieria speciosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gauthieria speciosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gauthieria speciosa 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 itGauthieria through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1801)