Mecaster fourneli

Mecaster fourneli

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MecasterPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Spatangoida

Time the record covers

At least 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 77 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 77 of 77 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 10 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 14 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 14 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 14 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya85.7 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

77 occurrences of Mecaster fourneli on record, most of them in the Late 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

77 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

10 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.80°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.84°S, 37.12°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WCotinguiba — 10.71°S, 36.99°WWata — 28.65°N, 33.24°EWata — 29.28°N, 34.72°EWata — 30.37°N, 34.45°EMatulla — 28.65°N, 33.24°EThemed — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EJandaíra — 5.33°S, 37.34°WJandaíra — 5.46°S, 37.24°WCelendín — 6.87°S, 78.15°WChonta — 8.77°S, 74.53°WGalala — 29.27°N, 34.72°EEze Aku — 6.43°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Mecaster fourneli 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.

Mecaster fourneli and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mecaster fourneli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Mecaster fourneli, 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

11 references

Each of the 77 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 Mecaster fourneli

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mecaster fourneli was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMecaster through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz and Dessor 1847)