Euryalidae

Euryalidae is a family of echinoderms belonging to the order Euryalida.

Euryalidae

Karen Gowlett-Holmes · CC BY 4.0 · 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
EuryalidaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 15 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72.2 Mya15.98 Mya85 Mya12 Mya

18 occurrences of Euryalidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

18 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

5 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.80°N, 5.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EGlobigerina Limestone — 36.08°N, 14.25°E

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The named rock units Euryalidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euryalidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Euryalidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Euryalidae, 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

Each of the 18 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 Euryalidae

Credit
Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euryalidae 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEuryalida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840