Plesiolampas

Plesiolampas is an extinct genus of echinoids that lived in the Eocene. Its remains have been found in Africa and Asia.

No picture of Plesiolampas 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 Plesiolampas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinolampadidaePBDB
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 66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 17 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya56 Mya85 Mya33 Mya

17 occurrences of Plesiolampas on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

17 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

4 formations

Teberemt — 16.67°N, 0.50°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.43°ETeberemt — 19.22°N, 0.30°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.50°ETichet, Ménaka, Teberemt — 19.62°N, 0.20°EMénaka — 16.75°N, 2.50°ETeberemt, Tamaguélelt, Continental Terminal — 16.80°N, 0.97°E

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The named rock units Plesiolampas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiolampas and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Plesiolampas and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Plesiolampas, 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 17 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 content0

No picture of Plesiolampas 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 Plesiolampas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plesiolampas was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.