Hemipneustes compressus
No picture of Hemipneustes compressus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Hemipneustes compressus itself, so it was not used. 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 Hemipneustes compressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemipneustesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Holasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holasteroida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Holasteroida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Hemipneustes compressus 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Simsima Formation5
- Kallankurichchi Formation · Ariyalur Group1
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The named rock units Hemipneustes compressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemipneustes compressus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hemipneustes compressus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hemipneustes compressus, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
2 references- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) echinoid-mollusc-coral assemblages and palaeoenvironments from a Tethyan carbonate platform succession, northern Oman Mountains5
- Occurrence of Hemipneustes Agassiz (Echinoid) from Tiruchirapalli Cretaceous, Tamil Nadu, India1
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. 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.
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No picture of Hemipneustes compressus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Hemipneustes compressus itself, so it was not used.
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 Hemipneustes compressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hemipneustes compressus 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 itHemipneustes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noetling 1897