Echinocyamus

Echinocyamus is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Fibulariidae.

Echinocyamus

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
FibulariidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 32 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 72 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 72 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Echinocyamus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

72 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

24 formations

Castle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.36°N, 77.82°WCastle Hayne — 35.29°N, 77.29°WCastle Hayne — 34.92°N, 77.43°WCastle Hayne — 34.75°N, 77.43°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 86.77°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WDammam — 25.51°N, 50.84°EDammam — 25.29°N, 50.92°EDammam — 25.27°N, 51.43°ECrystal River Limestone — 28.93°N, 82.70°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WTagpochau — 15.18°N, 145.76°EBorutta — 40.83°N, 8.43°EOcala Limestone — 29.01°N, 82.68°WKattendijk, Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EChipola — 30.50°N, 85.12°WRed Crag — 51.87°N, 1.29°EAvon Park — 29.01°N, 82.65°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°EGargorre — 10.48°N, 50.68°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EWadi Thamit — 28.25°N, 18.50°EManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.60°EClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WLake City — 31.15°N, 81.49°WRiver Bend — 34.89°N, 77.23°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.52°W"Fort Preston sand" — 30.20°N, 84.90°WGuadaíra — 37.36°N, 5.84°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Echinocyamus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinocyamus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Echinocyamus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

782 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Echinocyamus, 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

33 references

Each of the 72 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. 21 further references are not listed. 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 Echinocyamus

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Echinocyamus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itFibulariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van Phelsum 1774