Eccyliopterus owenanus
No picture of Eccyliopterus owenanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eccyliopterus owenanus, 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 most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.8 Mya and 450.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eccyliopterus owenanus 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
6 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
4 formations
- Dubuque Formation · Galena Group2
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
- Stewartville Formation1
- Prosser Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Eccyliopterus owenanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eccyliopterus owenanus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eccyliopterus owenanus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Lytospira subrotunda6 sites
- Ophiletina sublaxa6 sites
- Fusispira angusta5 sites
- Fusispira inflata5 sites
- Fusispira intermedia5 sites
- Fusispira subbrevis5 sites
- Fusispira subfusiformis5 sites
- Fusispira ventricosa5 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis5 sites
- Hormotoma minnesotensis5 sites
- Hormotoma oehlerti5 sites
- Lophospira major5 sites
- Maclurina manitobensis5 sites
- Maclurites crassa5 sites
- Maclurites cuneata5 sites
- Maclurites subrotunda5 sites
- Omospira trentonensis5 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus5 sites
- Cyrtospira wykoffensis3 sites
- Eotomaria3 sites
- Eunema concinnula3 sites
- Globonema niota3 sites
- Holopea excelsa3 sites
- Lophospira perangulata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eccyliopterus owenanus, 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
2 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota5
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Eccyliopterus owenanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eccyliopterus owenanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. (Meek and Worthen 1868)