Plagiochasma cruciferum
No picture of Plagiochasma cruciferum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Plagiochasma cruciferum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlagiochasmaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
12 occurrences of Plagiochasma cruciferum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group9
- Bruderndorf Formation1
- Vincentown Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Plagiochasma cruciferum 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.
Plagiochasma cruciferum and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Plagiochasma cruciferum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Ostrea pulaskensis5 sites
- Gitolampas4 sites
- Hercoglossa ulrichi4 sites
- Ostrea crenulimarginata4 sites
- Rotularia4 sites
- Calyptraphorus3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Serpula3 sites
- Teredo3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Adelopneustes boehmi2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Calyptraea2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Graphularia2 sites
- Hemiaster stella2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Pleurotomaria2 sites
- Protula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Plagiochasma cruciferum, 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
5 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region7
- Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States2
- Palaeobiology and biogeography of a Danian echinoid fauna of Lower Austria1
- Kalken paa Saltholm1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Plagiochasma cruciferum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Plagiochasma cruciferum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plagiochasma cruciferum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlagiochasma through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1830)