Cidaris perornata
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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 most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cidaris perornata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Cidaris perornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cidaris perornata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cidaris perornata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Aequipecten1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Calliderma smithiae1 site
- Calycoceras1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Crateraster quinqueloba1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Enoploclytia1 site
- Entolium membranaceum1 site
- Entolium orbiculare1 site
- Grammatodon1 site
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus1 site
- Metoicoceras geslinianum1 site
- Micrabacia coronula1 site
- Monticlarella lineolata1 site
- Newaagia obliquus1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Orbirhynchia multicostata1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Protocardia hillana1 site
- Ptychodus decurrens1 site
- Pycnodonta vesicularis1 site
- Scapanorhynchus raphiodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cidaris perornata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cidaris perornata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cidaris perornata 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 itCidaris through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forbes 1850