Spinopriscopedatus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PriscopedatidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 9 of 11 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous170–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165.3 Mya93.9 Mya170 Mya88 Mya

11 occurrences of Spinopriscopedatus 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

11 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

Shueib — 32.12°N, 35.85°E

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The named rock units Spinopriscopedatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spinopriscopedatus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Spinopriscopedatus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spinopriscopedatus, 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 11 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

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

No 3D scan of Spinopriscopedatus 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 itPriscopedatidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Sadeddin 1990