Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LinthiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Spatangoida
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Vincentown Formation · Rancocas Group3
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The named rock units Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Cidaris splendens3 sites
- Salenia tumidula3 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cavoscala annulata2 sites
- Echinopsis diatreta2 sites
- Flabellum mortoni2 sites
- Gauthieria speciosa2 sites
- Graphularia2 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer2 sites
- Hemiaster parastatus2 sites
- Hemiaster stella2 sites
- Holaster cinctus2 sites
- Kummelia2 sites
- Lamna2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) ovatus2 sites
- Polorthus tibialis2 sites
- Pyropsis2 sites
- Rotularia2 sites
- Scalpellum2 sites
- Tylocidaris walcotti2 sites
- Volutoderma2 sites
- <Callianassid>1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus, 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
3 references- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
- Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States1
Each of the 3 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 Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus 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 Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus 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 itLinthia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1891)