Goniocidaris

Goniocidaris is a genus of sea urchins (Echinoidea) in the family Cidaridae and typical of the subfamily Goniocidarinae. Extant species are mostly found in Indo-Pacific seas, often living at depth.

Goniocidaris

Frédéric Ducarme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
GoniocidarinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, omnivorePBDB, for Cidaroida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cidaroida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cidaroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cidaroida

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya15.98 Mya73 Mya10 Mya

5 occurrences of Goniocidaris on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

5 formations

Maastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EPoivre — 20.75°S, 115.33°EGlenforslan — 34.29°S, 139.63°ETorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°EDam — 24.68°N, 50.87°E

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The named rock units Goniocidaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Goniocidaris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Goniocidaris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Goniocidaris, 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 5 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 Goniocidaris

Credit
Frédéric Ducarme
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniocidaris 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.

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 itGoniocidarinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desor, in Agassiz & Desor 1846