Elasipodida

Elasipodida is an order of sea cucumbers. They have numerous appendages, including conical papillae and leaf-like tentacles. Although many species are benthic, a number are pelagic, and may have their appendages modified to form sails or fins. Most members of the order inhabit deep-sea environments, such as the species of the genus Enypniastes.

Elasipodida

Image courtesy of Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007. · Public Domain · 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
HolothuroideaPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 237 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 12 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–309 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences309–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences290–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–252 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence413.02 Mya239.48 Mya423 Mya233 Mya

12 occurrences of Elasipodida on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

12 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

9 formations

Wabaunsee — 38.37°N, 96.63°WWabaunsee — 38.82°N, 95.84°WLochkov — 50.03°N, 14.33°ELochkov — 49.98°N, 14.18°EGrzegorzowice — 50.88°N, 21.03°EChase — 38.27°N, 96.73°WMineral Wells — 32.90°N, 98.07°WBreathitt — 37.63°N, 82.64°WJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.58°EMuschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°W

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The named rock units Elasipodida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Elasipodida and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Elasipodida and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Elasipodida, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Elasipodida

Credit
Image courtesy of Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elasipodida 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.

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 itHolothuroidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Théel 1882