Encope micropora

Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Sebastián Mena, Juan José Alvarado, José Leonardo Chacón-Monge, Tayler M. Clarke, Julian… · CC BY 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
- 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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Encope micropora on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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.
Encope micropora and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Encope micropora and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Cerithium2 sites
- Ctena galapagana2 sites
- Encope grandis2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Pseudozonaria nigropunctata2 sites
- Pyrene2 sites
- Tegula2 sites
- Acanthina1 site
- Acteocina infrequens1 site
- Alaba supralirata1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Amphithalamus1 site
- Anodontia spherica1 site
- Anomia peruviana1 site
- Arbacia incisa1 site
- Arca pacifica1 site
- Arcopsis solida1 site
- Argopecten ventricosus1 site
- Atilia1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Balcis1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) reeveana1 site
- Bulla punctulata1 site
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) ovata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Encope micropora, 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
2 references- The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea3
- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Encope micropora
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Sebastián Mena, Juan José Alvarado, José Leonardo Chacón-Monge, Tayler M. Clarke, Julian…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Encope micropora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEncope through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1841