Palaeocoma escheri
No picture of Palaeocoma escheri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Palaeocoma escheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeocomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, detritivorePBDB, for Ophiodermatidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiodermatidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophiodermatidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Palaeocoma escheri on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Palaeocoma escheri 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.
Palaeocoma escheri and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Palaeocoma escheri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Amaltheocrinus1 site
- Chladocrinus1 site
- Diademopsis1 site
- Eryon1 site
- Glyphea1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Hemieuryale1 site
- Isocrinus1 site
- Lima1 site
- Ophiacantha toarcensis1 site
- Ophiocten seeweni1 site
- Ophiomusium sinemurensis1 site
- Ophiomusium solodurense1 site
- Ophiura astonensis1 site
- Palaeocoma milleri1 site
- Penaeus1 site
- Protankyra abyssicola1 site
- Schlotheimia angulata1 site
- Sinosura brodiei1 site
- Sinosura wolburgi1 site
- Spiriferina walcotti1 site
- Terminaster1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaeocoma escheri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Echinodermen im Unteren Lias (bucklandi- und semicostatum-zone) zwischen Ellange und Elvange (SE-Luxemburg)1
- Ophioderma escheri Heer aus dem unteren Lias der Schambelen (Kt. Aargau) und verwandete Lias-Ophiuren aus England und Deutschland1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Palaeocoma escheri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Palaeocoma escheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeocoma escheri 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 itPalaeocoma through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Herr 1865)