Diplocidaris gigantea

Diplocidaris gigantea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplocidarisPBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157.9 Mya149.2 Mya159.5 Mya144.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Diplocidaris gigantea on record, most of them in the Late 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

10 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

3 formations

Bärschwil — 47.40°N, 7.42°EBärschwil — 47.38°N, 7.47°EBärschwil — 47.33°N, 7.45°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WSt-Ursanne — 47.31°N, 7.11°E

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The named rock units Diplocidaris gigantea 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.

Diplocidaris gigantea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Diplocidaris gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Diplocidaris gigantea, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Diplocidaris gigantea

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iDigBio
Credit
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CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplocidaris gigantea 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.

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What may have been alongside itDiplocidaris through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1840)