Clypeopygus

Clypeopygus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NucleolitidaePBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 15 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 3 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya93.9 Mya133.5 Mya88.9 Mya

16 occurrences of Clypeopygus on record, most of them in the Early 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

16 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

Calcaires à spatangues — 48.15°N, 4.31°ECalcaires à spatangues — 48.11°N, 4.33°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.83°N, 3.93°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.95°N, 3.90°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.76°N, 3.58°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.70°N, 3.46°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.68°N, 3.37°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.62°N, 3.26°ECalcaires à spatangues — 47.57°N, 3.23°E

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The named rock units Clypeopygus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clypeopygus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Clypeopygus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Clypeopygus, 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

4 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Clypeopygus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Clypeopygus 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 itNucleolitidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.