Eccyliopterus alatus
No picture of Eccyliopterus alatus 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 Eccyliopterus alatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EccyliopterusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eccyliopterus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eccyliopterus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Eccyliopterus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 461.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 459.7 Mya.
2 occurrences of Eccyliopterus alatus 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Eccyliopterus alatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eccyliopterus alatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eccyliopterus alatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Eccyliopterus declivis1 site
- Eccyliopterus regularis1 site
- Lesueurilla infundibulum1 site
- Lytospira angelini1 site
- Megalomphala planorbiformis1 site
- Pararaphistoma qualteriata1 site
- Pararaphistoma vaginati1 site
- Phthanoncoceras ellipticum1 site
- Richardsonoceras gerhardi1 site
- Sinuites vetustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eccyliopterus alatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Koken and Perner, 19251
Each of the 2 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 Eccyliopterus alatus 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 Eccyliopterus alatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eccyliopterus alatus 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 itEccyliopterus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1876)