Phyllobrissus

Phyllobrissus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NucleolitidaePBDB
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 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 88 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 85 of 88 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 88 occurrencesLate Cretaceous150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 16 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 19 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 19 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 15 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145.06 Mya100.5 Mya150 Mya93 Mya

88 occurrences of Phyllobrissus on record, most of them in the Early 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

88 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

9 formations

Calcaires à Spatangues — 48.67°N, 4.99°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.64°N, 5.04°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.60°N, 5.13°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.54°N, 5.05°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.53°N, 4.99°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.41°N, 4.87°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.35°N, 4.74°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.30°N, 4.58°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.27°N, 4.53°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.17°N, 4.34°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.11°N, 4.33°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.09°N, 4.24°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.02°N, 4.15°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 48.02°N, 4.04°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.94°N, 3.98°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.83°N, 3.93°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.95°N, 3.90°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.99°N, 4.08°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.92°N, 3.84°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.88°N, 3.73°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.83°N, 3.67°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.74°N, 3.52°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.33°N, 2.83°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.76°N, 3.58°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.64°N, 3.33°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.51°N, 3.12°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.40°N, 2.77°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.68°N, 3.37°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.57°N, 3.23°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.55°N, 3.18°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.50°N, 3.05°ECalcaires à Spatangues — 47.75°N, 3.52°EFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WMergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°ECalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°WHythe — 51.25°N, 0.07°WFalaise de Bikfaya — 33.92°N, 35.71°ERiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WCoporolo — 12.97°S, 13.08°E

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The named rock units Phyllobrissus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllobrissus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Phyllobrissus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

340 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Phyllobrissus, 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

10 references

Each of the 88 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 Phyllobrissus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itNucleolitidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau 1859