Coelopleurus castroi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelopleurusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Arbaciidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arbaciidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arbaciidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coelopleurus castroi 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.
Coelopleurus castroi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Coelopleurus castroi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Campanile1 site
- Cardium riogramamense1 site
- Corbula lyra1 site
- Cucullaea erda1 site
- Cucullaea freia1 site
- Cucullaea isolda1 site
- Eusebia stantoni1 site
- Glyptoxoceras1 site
- Natica parahybensis1 site
- Pholadomya parahybensis1 site
- Plicatula parahybensis1 site
- Pyrina parahybensis1 site
- Roudairia brasiliensis1 site
- Trigonarca jessupae1 site
- Turritella antigona1 site
- Turritella arethusa1 site
- Turritella brunnhilda1 site
- Turritella totiumsanctorum1 site
- Venericardia maris australis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coelopleurus castroi, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Coelopleurus castroi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coelopleurus castroi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCoelopleurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maury 1930