Archaeocidaridae

Archaeocidaridae

Didier Descouens · 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
EchinoideaPBDB
Diet
grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 132 occurrencesDevonian — about 19 of 132 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 67 of 132 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 43 of 132 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 132 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 132 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 132 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 132 occurrences431–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–416 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences416–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences400–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 2 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 7 occurrences361–353 Mya — about 3 occurrences353–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–337 Mya — about 7 occurrences337–330 Mya — about 14 occurrences330–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences322–314 Mya — about 7 occurrences314–306 Mya — about 9 occurrences306–298 Mya — about 25 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 4 occurrences291–283 Mya — about 3 occurrences283–275 Mya — about 20 occurrences275–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–259 Mya — about 10 occurrences259–252 Mya — about 4 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya251.902 Mya431 Mya197 Mya

132 occurrences of Archaeocidaridae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

132 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

44 formations

Kaibab — 35.17°N, 111.50°WKaibab — 34.62°N, 111.09°WKaibab — 34.55°N, 111.24°WKaibab — 34.44°N, 111.28°WKaibab — 34.49°N, 111.38°WKaibab — 34.87°N, 111.68°WKaibab — 35.07°N, 111.96°WKaibab — 36.33°N, 113.04°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 39.05°N, 94.67°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WMinturn — 39.92°N, 106.72°WMinturn — 39.92°N, 106.77°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WBell Canyon — 31.90°N, 104.82°WBell Canyon — 31.95°N, 104.71°WBell Canyon — 31.98°N, 104.75°WEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°EToroweap — 35.58°N, 112.58°WToroweap — 35.40°N, 112.96°WToroweap — 36.33°N, 113.04°WToroweap — 35.83°N, 115.43°WSalem Limestone — 37.49°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°EWinchell — 31.84°N, 99.00°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WMiddle Loogh — 50.22°N, 6.65°EWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WCameron Creek — 46.37°N, 109.18°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WWhite Pine Shale — 39.23°N, 113.60°WHillsdale Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.25°WHemse Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°E

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The named rock units Archaeocidaridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeocidaridae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Archaeocidaridae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,326 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Archaeocidaridae, 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

51 references

Each of the 132 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. 39 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 Archaeocidaridae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Archaeocidaridae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1844