Priscopedatus

Priscopedatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PriscopedatidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 318 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 143 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 143 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 143 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 143 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 28 of 143 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 25 of 143 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 143 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 45 of 143 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 17 of 143 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 143 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 143 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 143 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 143 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 143 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 143 occurrences365–354 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences354–343 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences343–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences251–239 Mya — about 27 occurrences239–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–216 Mya — about 8 occurrences216–205 Mya — about 13 occurrences205–193 Mya — about 5 occurrences193–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–170 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences170–159 Mya — about 50 occurrences159–147 Mya — about 11 occurrences101–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences351.9 Mya33.9 Mya365 Mya21 Mya

143 occurrences of Priscopedatus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

143 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

19 formations

Hallstätterkalk — 48.53°N, 20.47°EHallstatt — 47.90°N, 16.10°EHallstatt — 47.66°N, 13.70°EFurkaska — 49.27°N, 19.81°EBell Canyon — 31.88°N, 104.80°WHazelbury Bryan — 50.01°N, 2.29°WKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EHallstätterkalk — 47.63°N, 12.98°EShueib — 32.12°N, 35.85°EJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.58°ERockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WBlue Lias — 52.29°N, 1.39°WEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ESeptarienton — 54.08°N, 9.78°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EVäszoly — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBuchenstein — 46.88°N, 17.60°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°ERotgeflecker Liaskalk — 47.57°N, 12.55°EScheibelberg — 47.62°N, 12.58°E

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The named rock units Priscopedatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 94 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Priscopedatus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Priscopedatus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

797 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Priscopedatus, 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

29 references

Each of the 143 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 Priscopedatus

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Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Priscopedatus 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 itPriscopedatidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlumberger 1890