Spatangus

Spatangus

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpatangidaePBDB
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 least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 29 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences83.6 Mya2.58 Mya87 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Spatangus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

29 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

14 formations

Uggiano La Chiesa — 40.12°N, 18.30°EPietra Leccese — 40.38°N, 18.18°EYorktown — 37.03°N, 76.60°WBarton Clay — 50.72°N, 1.67°WKattendijk, Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WHochmoos — 47.61°N, 13.48°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EMatilija — 34.43°N, 119.01°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WKurotaki — 35.21°N, 139.85°EJizodo — 35.38°N, 140.06°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°E

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The named rock units Spatangus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spatangus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spatangus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

415 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Spatangus, 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

18 references

Each of the 29 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. 6 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 Spatangus

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itSpatangidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825