Phymosomatoida

The Phymosomatoida are an order of sea urchins, found in Europe, North America, North Africa and the Middle East.

Phymosomatoida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalycinaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 190 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 410 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 410 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 29 of 410 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 38 of 410 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 90 of 410 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 218 of 410 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 410 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 410 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 410 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 410 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 410 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 410 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences176–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 22 occurrences163–156 Mya — about 14 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 25 occurrences149–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–129 Mya — about 25 occurrences129–122 Mya — about 25 occurrences122–115 Mya — about 16 occurrences115–109 Mya — about 8 occurrences109–102 Mya — about 9 occurrences102–95 Mya — about 49 occurrences95–88 Mya — about 55 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 17 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 18 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 59 occurrences68–61 Mya — about 33 occurrences61–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences192.9 Mya2.58 Mya203 Mya0 Mya

410 occurrences of Phymosomatoida on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

410 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

105 formations

Gulpen — 50.73°N, 5.63°EGulpen — 50.76°N, 5.66°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EWata — 28.65°N, 33.24°EWata — 29.67°N, 34.50°EWata — 30.38°N, 33.52°EWata — 29.28°N, 34.72°EWata — 29.63°N, 34.40°EMaastricht — 50.87°N, 5.68°EMaastricht — 50.87°N, 5.98°EMaastricht — 50.88°N, 5.93°EMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.76°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 51.22°N, 5.75°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.33°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.50°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°ECotinguiba — 10.80°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 11.00°S, 37.31°WGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°EMt. Lysa — 50.90°N, 21.67°EMt. Lysa — 51.26°N, 21.06°EMaastricht — 50.79°N, 5.63°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°EGulpen — 50.76°N, 5.83°EGulpen — 50.77°N, 5.86°EAbu Qada — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 30.37°N, 34.45°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ECabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.79°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 40.04°N, 74.98°WVincentown — 39.88°N, 75.13°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°WOxford Clay — 52.33°N, 0.09°WOxford Clay — 52.42°N, 0.07°EOxford Clay — 51.74°N, 1.20°WOxford Clay — 51.76°N, 1.24°WGalala — 29.27°N, 34.72°EObourg — 50.41°N, 4.01°EPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.66°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WVaals — 50.73°N, 5.67°EVaals — 50.65°N, 5.80°ERoca — 37.07°S, 67.77°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRisan Aneiza — 31.00°N, 33.50°ERisan Aneiza — 30.79°N, 33.48°ECalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.40°N, 9.22°W

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The named rock units Phymosomatoida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 81 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 122 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phymosomatoida and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Phymosomatoida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,486 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 296 sites for Phymosomatoida, and this reads 240 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

105 references

Each of the 410 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. 93 further references are not listed. 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 Phymosomatoida

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No 3D scan of Phymosomatoida 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.

The description on this site

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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. (Mortensen 1904)