Cidaris cubensis
No picture of Cidaris cubensis 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 Cidaris cubensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CidarisPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cidaris cubensis on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Cidaris cubensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Balanocrinus cubensis1 site
- Centrostephanus habanensis1 site
- Cyclaster jacksoni1 site
- Gauthieria sanchezi1 site
- Habanaster sanchezi1 site
- Histocidaris1 site
- Nymphaster miocenicus1 site
- Rhabdocidaris sanchezi1 site
- Stauranderaster sanchezi1 site
- Victoriaster lamberti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cidaris cubensis, 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- Cretaceous and Tertiary Cidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of the Caribbean Area1
- Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba1
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
Media content0
No picture of Cidaris cubensis 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 Cidaris cubensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cidaris cubensis 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. Lambert 1925