Emiratia raskhaimahensis

Emiratia is a genus of extinct sea urchin known from the Cenomanian Maudad formation of the United Arab Emirates. It is known from only one species, Emiratia raskhaimahensis, and is placed in the family Emiratiidae. It was named by Ali, 1990.

No picture of Emiratia raskhaimahensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Emiratia raskhaimahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EmiratiaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106.3 Mya100.5 Mya110.6 Mya93.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Emiratia raskhaimahensis on record, most of them in the Early 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

2 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

2 formations

Mauddud — 25.90°N, 56.07°EHalal — 30.79°N, 33.48°E

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

Emiratia raskhaimahensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Emiratia raskhaimahensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Emiratia raskhaimahensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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.

Media and terms

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No picture of Emiratia raskhaimahensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Emiratia raskhaimahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Emiratia raskhaimahensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itEmiratia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ali 1990