Heterodiadema libycum

Heterodiadema libycum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterodiademaPBDB
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 26 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya107 Mya71.5 Mya

26 occurrences of Heterodiadema libycum 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

26 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

8 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EWasia — 24.39°N, 47.75°EWasia — 24.20°N, 47.67°EWasia — 28.28°N, 43.45°EWasia — 27.95°N, 43.90°EKanawa Limestones — 10.30°N, 11.38°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°ENaur — 31.86°N, 35.82°EAruma — 24.20°N, 47.69°E

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The named rock units Heterodiadema libycum 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.

Heterodiadema libycum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Heterodiadema libycum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Heterodiadema libycum, 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

8 references

Each of the 26 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 Heterodiadema libycum

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz and Desor 1846)