Echinoneus cyclostomus

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- EchinoneusPBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Echinoneus cyclostomus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group1
- Sign Formation · White Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Echinoneus cyclostomus 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.
Echinoneus cyclostomus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Echinoneus cyclostomus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Spatangoida3 sites
- Prionocidaris2 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Agassizia1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Antropora1 site
- Arca noae1 site
- Argopecten levicostatus1 site
- Astreopora goethalsi1 site
- Astrocoenia incrustans1 site
- Astropecten1 site
- Biflustra1 site
- Brissus sagrae1 site
- Bryopesanser1 site
- Buffonellaria1 site
- Caberea1 site
- Calloporina1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharhinus leucas1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Celleporidae1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Chaperiidae1 site
- Chaperiopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Echinoneus cyclostomus, 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
5 references- Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)1
- Lower Miocene echinoderms of Jamaica, West Indies1
- Oligocene echinoids of Jamaica1
- Fossil echinoies deposited in the museum of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Sirahama, Wakayama Prefectures (on some fossil echinoids of Japan, III)1
- Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba1
Each of the 5 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 Echinoneus cyclostomus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Philippe Bourjon
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Echinoneus cyclostomus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leske 1778