Neolaganum

Crane, Stephen · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- NeolaganinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Neolaganum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Neolaganum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neolaganum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Neolaganum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Echinocyamus vaughani3 sites
- Rhyncholampas3 sites
- Callianassa inglisestris2 sites
- Durhamella2 sites
- Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus2 sites
- Eupatagus antillarum2 sites
- Goniasteridae2 sites
- Phyllacanthus mortoni2 sites
- Velates perversus2 sites
- Agassizia1 site
- Agassizia clevei1 site
- Amblypygus1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Asteroidea indet.1 site
- Aturia alabamensis1 site
- Balanomorpha1 site
- Basilosaurus1 site
- Brissopsis1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Caryapollenites1 site
- Celtipollenites1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Neolaganum, 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
4 references- Diversity patterns and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic echinodems from Florida2
- Paleoecology of shallow-marine carbonate environments, middle Eocene of Peninsular Florida1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 5 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 Neolaganum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Crane, Stephen
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itNeolaganinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1954