Eccoptochile

Searched as Eccoptochile (Eccoptochile) clavigera. The Paleobiology Database treats Eccoptochile as the accepted name.

Eccoptochile

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EccoptochilinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 1.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.3 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 463.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 8 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459.3 Mya – 458.2 Mya463.8 Mya442.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Eccoptochile on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

8 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

5 formations

Liben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELiben — 49.83°N, 13.83°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBancos Mixtos — 39.00°N, 4.00°WBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Eccoptochile has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eccoptochile and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eccoptochile and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

504 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Eccoptochile, 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

Each of the 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Eccoptochile

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Eccoptochile 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itEccoptochilinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)