Goniopygus

Goniopygus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArbaciidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Arbaciidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arbaciidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arbaciidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 35 of 91 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 55 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 91 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 5 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 5 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 12 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 12 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132.6 Mya66 Mya139 Mya60 Mya

91 occurrences of Goniopygus 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

91 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

26 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EWata — 28.65°N, 33.24°EWata — 29.67°N, 34.50°EWata — 30.37°N, 34.45°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°ERaha — 30.00°N, 32.67°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°ECalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°WGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.33°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.81°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°ERisan Aneiza — 31.00°N, 33.50°ECarregador de Carreu — 42.17°N, 0.90°EArén — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°Ecalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.75°N, 9.35°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.30°N, 77.88°WCalcaires à Polypiers de Lagosteiros — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WThemed — 29.67°N, 34.50°EBiyadh — 24.23°N, 46.99°EEdwards Limestone — 30.50°N, 97.67°W

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The named rock units Goniopygus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniopygus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

697 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Goniopygus, 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

25 references

Each of the 91 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Goniopygus

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

No 3D scan of Goniopygus 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.

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 1838