Rhabdocidaris

Rhabdocidaris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhabdocidaridaePBDB
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 least 213 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 131 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 131 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 131 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 41 of 131 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 46 of 131 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 131 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 131 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 131 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 131 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–228 Mya — about 5 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–174 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences174–166 Mya — about 21 occurrences166–159 Mya — about 25 occurrences159–151 Mya — about 30 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 10 occurrences143–135 Mya — about 4 occurrences135–128 Mya — about 17 occurrences128–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237 Mya23.04 Mya244 Mya12 Mya

131 occurrences of Rhabdocidaris 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

131 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

32 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.33°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 22.50°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ESt-Ursanne — 47.39°N, 7.40°ESt-Ursanne — 47.37°N, 7.21°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.52°N, 46.41°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.17°N, 2.70°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°EMt. Lysa — 50.90°N, 21.67°EMt. Lysa — 50.92°N, 20.95°EBirdlip Limestone — 51.85°N, 2.10°WBirdlip Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.75°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.59°N, 2.06°WDammam — 25.23°N, 50.83°EDammam — 25.49°N, 50.85°EDammam — 25.27°N, 51.43°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EScarborough — 54.26°N, 0.38°WWildegg — 47.43°N, 8.18°EBärschwil — 47.40°N, 7.42°EBärschwil — 47.41°N, 7.49°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.52°ECouches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.75°N, 9.35°WMarnes à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°E

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The named rock units Rhabdocidaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdocidaris and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhabdocidaris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,722 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Rhabdocidaris, 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

50 references

Each of the 131 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. 38 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 content2

Picture of Rhabdocidaris

Credit
Vassil
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itRhabdocidaridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desor 1855