Goniophorus

Goniophorus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 50 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144 Mya93 Mya

6 occurrences of Goniophorus on record, most of them in the Late 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

6 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

4 formations

Grizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°EPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°EWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°EGrayson — 32.64°N, 97.24°W

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

Goniophorus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Goniophorus, 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 6 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 Goniophorus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniophorus 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1838