Glypticus

Glypticus

Uncredited · 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
ArbaciidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Arbaciidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arbaciidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arbaciidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157.9 Mya149.2 Mya159.5 Mya144.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Glypticus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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

3 formations

St-Ursanne — 47.37°N, 7.17°EMarnes à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Glypticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glypticus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Glypticus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Glypticus, 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

5 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Glypticus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Glypticus 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 itArbaciidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.