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Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	395805	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=395805

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Spatangoida : Brissidae : Plagiobrissus : Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Echinozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Echinoidea
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
superorder	Acroechinoidea
-	Carinacea	Kroh and Smith 2010
-	Irregularia
-	Atelostomata	von Zittel 1879
order	Spatangoida	Agassiz 1840
suborder	Brissidina	Stockley et al. 2005
family	Brissidae	Gray 1855
genus	Plagiobrissus	Pomel 1883
species	Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus	Cooke 1942

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus	species	belongs to Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus)	stated with evidence	Cooke, 1942

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

marine (based on Spatangoida)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Spatangoida)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

deposit feeder, detritivore (based on Spatangoida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Spatangoida)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Spatangoida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. W. Cooke. 1942. Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 16:1-62

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1942	Eupatagus (Plagiobrissus) curvus Cooke p. 56 figs. Plate 7, Figs. 5-7

References

Cooke C. W. (1942) Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States, Journal of Paleontology 16, 1-62

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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