Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LinthiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Spatangoida
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Williston Limestone Formation · Ocala Group1
- Crystal River Limestone Formation · Ocala Group1
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The named rock units Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Agassizia1 site
- Durhamella floridanum1 site
- Durhamella ocalana1 site
- Echinocyamus vaughani1 site
- Oligopygus haldermani1 site
- Pecten (Pecten) perplanus1 site
- Peronella cubae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus, 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- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Summary of the geology of Florida and a guidebook to the classic exposures1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLinthia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooke 1942