Nucleopygus scrobiculatus

Nucleopygus scrobiculatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NucleopygusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Cassiduloida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 39 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

12 occurrences of Nucleopygus scrobiculatus 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

12 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 — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.77°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EGulpen — 50.80°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°ECabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.80°WCabo de Lata — 42.84°N, 2.18°WGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°E

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The named rock units Nucleopygus scrobiculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nucleopygus scrobiculatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nucleopygus scrobiculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Nucleopygus scrobiculatus, 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

Each of the 12 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 Nucleopygus scrobiculatus

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

No 3D scan of Nucleopygus scrobiculatus 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 itNucleopygus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldufss 1826)