Phymechinus mirabilis

Phymechinus mirabilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymechinusPBDB
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 most 1.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 157.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159.5 Mya157.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Phymechinus mirabilis on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

St-Ursanne — 47.37°N, 7.17°E

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The named rock units Phymechinus mirabilis 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.

Phymechinus mirabilis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Phymechinus mirabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phymechinus mirabilis, 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

2 references

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. 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 Phymechinus mirabilis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phymechinus mirabilis 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 itPhymechinus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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