Encope michelini

Katie Ahlfeld · CC0 · 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
- EncopePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Encope michelini on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene26%
- Pliocene49%
- Pleistocene25%
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
6 formations
- Waccamaw Formation2
- Seroe Domi Formation2
- Anastasia Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Seroe Domi Formation1
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The named rock units Encope michelini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Clypeaster rosaceus3 sites
- Macropneustes ventricosus3 sites
- Spondylus rotundatus3 sites
- Astrocoenia2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Acrosterigma1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) aequalitas1 site
- Anadara tuberculosa1 site
- Antillipecten antillarum1 site
- Arbacia rivuli1 site
- Arbacia waccamaw1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Argopecten anteamplicostata1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Attiliosa aldridgei1 site
- Balanus niveus1 site
- Bothrocorbula wilcoxii1 site
- Cardium emmonsi1 site
- Certhioclava garciai1 site
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum1 site
- Cinctura lilium1 site
- Clypeaster1 site
- Clypeaster subdepressus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Encope michelini, 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
3 references- Neogene and Quaternary geology of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire3
- Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States3
- Diversity patterns and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic echinodems from Florida2
Each of the 8 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 Encope michelini
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Katie Ahlfeld
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Encope michelini was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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. Agassiz 1841