Periarchus lyelli

Periarchus lyelli

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 62 of 62 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 62 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 7 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

62 occurrences of Periarchus lyelli on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

62 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

9 formations

Moodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 31.71°N, 87.78°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.86°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.85°WMoodys Branch — 30.71°N, 84.86°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.70°N, 83.56°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.10°N, 86.09°WMoodys Branch — 31.57°N, 88.04°WMoodys Branch — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.97°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.83°WCastle Hayne — 34.75°N, 77.43°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WCastle Hayne — 35.30°N, 77.28°WCastle Hayne — 34.90°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.51°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WLisbon — 31.20°N, 86.17°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.37°N, 84.93°WSantee Limestone — 33.25°N, 80.45°WSantee Limestone — 33.18°N, 79.95°WTupelo Bay — 33.25°N, 80.45°WTupelo Bay — 33.47°N, 80.49°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WYazoo — 31.86°N, 88.70°W

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

Periarchus lyelli and its relatives

Eocene

Where Periarchus lyelli and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Periarchus lyelli, 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

10 references

Each of the 62 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 Periarchus lyelli

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Periarchus lyelli 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1834)