Paracidaris blumenbachi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacidarisPBDB
- 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 most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paracidaris blumenbachi 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
3 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Paracidaris blumenbachi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracidaris blumenbachi and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Paracidaris blumenbachi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Polycidaris escheri2 sites
- Argovithyris1 site
- Dictyothyris kurri1 site
- Lacunosella (Lacunosella) arolica1 site
- Merocidaris propinqua1 site
- Monticlarella striocincta1 site
- Nucleata1 site
- Plegiocidaris coronata1 site
- Polycidaris spinosa1 site
- Rhabdocidaris deubelbeissi1 site
- Romanocidaris filograna1 site
- Terebratulina substriata1 site
- Trigonellina1 site
- Trigonellina pectunculus1 site
- Zeilleria rollieri1 site
- Zittelina friesenensis1 site
- Zittelina orbis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paracidaris blumenbachi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Paracidaris blumenbachi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paracidaris blumenbachi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracidaris blumenbachi 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 itParacidaris through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muenster 1826)