Clypeus

Clypeus

Bildoj · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ClypeidaePBDB
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 9.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 16 of 18 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya159 Mya175.2 Mya154.3 Mya

18 occurrences of Clypeus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

18 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

10 formations

Dhruma — 23.30°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 25.33°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°ESa Wer — 10.34°N, 42.80°ESa Wer — 10.56°N, 43.00°EHambleton Oolite — 54.25°N, 1.07°WWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WKezileinuer — 41.84°N, 86.28°EBihin Limestone — 10.17°N, 45.13°EDaua Limestone — 3.90°N, 41.20°ESalperton Limestone — 51.86°N, 2.10°WClypeus Grit — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSierra Fraga — 26.65°S, 69.52°W

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The named rock units Clypeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clypeus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Clypeus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Clypeus, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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. 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 content2

Picture of Clypeus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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What may have been alongside itClypeidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leske 1778