Temnocidaris

Temnocidaris is an extinct genus of echinoids that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene. Its remains have been found in Europe and North America.

Temnocidaris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StereocidarinaePBDB
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 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 120 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 120 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 92 of 120 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 120 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 120 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 120 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 120 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 120 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 120 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 23 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 12 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 26 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 21 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences152.21 Mya2.58 Mya158 Mya0 Mya

120 occurrences of Temnocidaris on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

120 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

28 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 6.77°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.83°EMaastricht — 50.88°N, 5.93°EMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.64°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.65°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.64°EWasia — 24.39°N, 47.75°EWasia — 24.20°N, 47.67°EWasia — 28.28°N, 43.45°EGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°EGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°EGulpen — 50.92°N, 6.00°EHouthem — 50.87°N, 5.78°EArén — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.79°WHouthem — 50.83°N, 5.64°EFinlay — 31.30°N, 105.47°WFinlay — 31.30°N, 105.43°WQishn — 14.27°N, 48.57°ECraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°ESalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°WUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 0.18°ECampanien 1-2 — 45.75°N, 0.47°WSecond niveau de Calcaires à Rudistes — 45.95°N, 1.08°WCarregador de Carreu — 42.17°N, 0.90°ETexanitid Marls — 42.17°N, 0.90°EBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°ERiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WKurotaki — 35.21°N, 139.85°E

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The named rock units Temnocidaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Temnocidaris and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Temnocidaris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Temnocidaris, 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

39 references

Each of the 120 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. 27 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 content1

Picture of Temnocidaris

Credit
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Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Temnocidaris 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStereocidarinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau 1863