Eocidaris
No picture of Eocidaris 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 Eocidaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeocidaridaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eocidaris on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Eocidaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eocidaris and its relatives
PermianWhere Eocidaris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Archaeocidaris ladina1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Bakevellia kingi1 site
- Batostomella1 site
- Bucania suhaensis1 site
- Calophyllum columnare1 site
- Composita mexicana1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyathocrinites ramosus1 site
- Cycloceras waageni1 site
- Cyrtorostra varicostata1 site
- Edmondia rudis1 site
- Entalis multiplicans1 site
- Entalis orahovicensis1 site
- Entalis turcica1 site
- Eotiaris keyserlingi1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Hustedia phosphoriensis1 site
- Leioclema1 site
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Minodentalium ingens1 site
- Nautilus1 site
- Nuculopsis beyrichi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eocidaris, 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 referencesEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eocidaris 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 Eocidaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eocidaris 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 itArchaeocidaridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desor 1856