Unifascia carolinensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UnifasciaPBDB
- 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 least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Unifascia carolinensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Unifascia carolinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Unifascia carolinensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Unifascia carolinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Cidaris pratti6 sites
- Linthia hanoverensis6 sites
- Agassizia (Anisaster) wilmingtonica4 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Linthia wilmingtonensis4 sites
- Periarchus lyelli4 sites
- Plicatoria wilmingtonensis4 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa4 sites
- Venericardia4 sites
- Aturia alabamensis3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Coelopleurus infulatus3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Cypraea3 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus3 sites
- Echinolampas appendiculata3 sites
- Eutrephoceras carolinensis3 sites
- Lucina3 sites
- Maretia3 sites
- Marginella3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Probolarina holmesi3 sites
- Probolarina salpinx3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Unifascia carolinensis, 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
4 references- The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina3
- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap2
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina1
- The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Unifascia carolinensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Unifascia carolinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Unifascia carolinensis 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 itUnifascia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark and Twitchell 1915)