Ectocentrocristus foxi
No picture of Ectocentrocristus foxi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ectocentrocristus foxi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EctocentrocristusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ectocentrocristus foxi 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
3 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.
Found in
1 formation
- Judith River Formation · Montana Group2
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The named rock units Ectocentrocristus foxi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ectocentrocristus foxi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ectocentrocristus foxi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Alphadon halleyi2 sites
- Eodelphis2 sites
- Gypsonictops lewisi2 sites
- Leptalestes prokrejcii2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Alphadon attaragos1 site
- Alphadon marshi1 site
- Alphadontidae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Aquiladelphis minor1 site
- Baenidae1 site
- Batodon1 site
- Belonostomus longirostris1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Cimexomys judithae1 site
- Cimolestes1 site
- Cimolodon1 site
- Cimolomys clarki1 site
- Edmontonia longiceps1 site
- Eutheria1 site
- Exostinus lancensis1 site
- Filikomys primaevus1 site
- Goniobasis1 site
- Gypsonictops clemensi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ectocentrocristus foxi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Ectocentrocristus foxi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ectocentrocristus foxi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ectocentrocristus foxi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itEctocentrocristus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Wolberg 1987