Echinolampas

Echinolampas is a genus of echinoderms belonging to the family Echinolampadidae.

Echinolampas

Emőke Dénes · 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
EchinolampadidaePBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 192 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 85 of 192 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 192 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 78 of 192 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 192 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 192 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 16 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 21 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 12 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 14 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences56 Mya774 ka63 Mya0 Mya

192 occurrences of Echinolampas on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

192 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

43 formations

Castle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.63°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.97°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.83°WCastle Hayne — 34.75°N, 77.43°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.30°N, 77.95°WCastle Hayne — 34.80°N, 77.98°WCastle Hayne — 34.85°N, 77.70°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WPietra Leccese — 40.15°N, 18.50°EPietra Leccese — 40.08°N, 18.42°EPietra Leccese — 39.88°N, 18.33°EChickasawhay — 31.53°N, 87.81°WChickasawhay — 31.45°N, 87.69°WChickasawhay — 31.63°N, 88.31°WChickasawhay — 31.07°N, 87.10°WChickasawhay — 31.53°N, 87.91°WChickasawhay — 31.67°N, 88.64°WChickasawhay — 31.70°N, 88.67°WMokattam — 30.02°N, 31.27°EMokattam — 28.00°N, 30.75°EMokattam — 29.98°N, 31.13°EPoivre — 20.75°S, 115.33°EPoivre — 20.67°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.75°S, 115.42°EDammam — 25.52°N, 50.86°EDammam — 25.51°N, 50.84°EMaadi — 29.00°N, 30.00°EMaadi — 30.08°N, 31.25°EWadi Tamet — 31.00°N, 16.09°EWadi Tamet — 28.88°N, 18.87°EMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.28°N, 86.57°WZallah — 28.88°N, 18.87°EWadi Thamit — 28.25°N, 18.50°EMarne di Priabona — 45.52°N, 11.54°EMoneague — 18.03°N, 77.45°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WWadi Thamat — 29.81°N, 16.61°EWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°EPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°EAnguilla — 18.21°N, 63.08°WBateque — 26.50°N, 112.73°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.93°N, 82.70°WSamalut — 28.10°N, 30.83°EMarmarica — 29.20°N, 25.52°EEl Fuqaha — 27.62°N, 36.20°E

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The named rock units Echinolampas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinolampas and its relatives

Eocene

Where Echinolampas and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Echinolampas, 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

64 references

Each of the 192 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. 52 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 content2

Picture of Echinolampas

Credit
Emőke Dénes
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825