Goniopygus zitteli

Goniopygus zitteli

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniopygusPBDB
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 most 3.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 110.1 Mya and 106.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110.6 Mya105.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Goniopygus zitteli on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

1 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

1 formation

Edwards Limestone — 30.50°N, 97.67°W

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

Goniopygus zitteli and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Goniopygus zitteli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Goniopygus zitteli, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Goniopygus zitteli

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniopygus zitteli 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 itGoniopygus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1891