Eccoptochile mariana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EccoptochilePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eccoptochile
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Eccoptochile mariana 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Valongo Formation2
- Traveusot Formation2
- Andouillé Formation2
- Untere Quartzite Formation2
- Rio-Schiefer Formation1
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The named rock units Eccoptochile mariana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eccoptochile mariana and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eccoptochile mariana and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Prionocheilus mendax5 sites
- Salterocoryphe salteri5 sites
- Neseuretus tristani4 sites
- Phacopidina micheli4 sites
- Colpocoryphe rouaulti3 sites
- Zeliszkella (Zeliszkella) torrubiae3 sites
- Crozonaspis struvei2 sites
- Eodalmanitina macrophthalma2 sites
- Eoharpes guichenensis2 sites
- Guichenia dufouri2 sites
- Mucronaspis destombesi destombesi2 sites
- Placoparia2 sites
- Placoparia (Coplacoparia) borni2 sites
- Prionocheilus2 sites
- Selenopeltis2 sites
- Selenopeltis gallica2 sites
- Actinopeltis1 site
- Aegiromena1 site
- Amplexograptus1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Basilicus1 site
- Bathycheilus1 site
- Colpocoryphe1 site
- Dalmanitina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eccoptochile mariana, 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- Trilobites ordoviciens du Massif armoricain4
- Phacopina und Cheirurina (Trilobita) aus dem Ordovizium von Spanien3
- The trilobite genus Eoharpes from the Ordovician of Brittany and Portugal1
- The trilobite Eccoptochile from the Ordovician of northern Portugal1
Each of the 9 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. 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
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No picture of Eccoptochile mariana 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 Eccoptochile mariana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eccoptochile mariana 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 itEccoptochile through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Verneuil and Barrande 1855)