Rhabdocidaris fowleri

No picture of Rhabdocidaris fowleri 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 Rhabdocidaris fowleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhabdocidarisPBDB
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 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175.2 Mya167.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Rhabdocidaris fowleri on record, most of them in the Middle 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

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

Birdlip Limestone — 51.85°N, 2.10°W

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The named rock units Rhabdocidaris fowleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdocidaris fowleri and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Rhabdocidaris fowleri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhabdocidaris fowleri, 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

2 references

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Rhabdocidaris fowleri 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 Rhabdocidaris fowleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhabdocidaris fowleri 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 itRhabdocidaris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wright 1851)