Eccyliopterus regularis

Eccyliopterus regularis

Mickwitz · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 453.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 452.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464.3 Mya453.9 Mya471.8 Mya452.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Eccyliopterus regularis 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

17 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

10 formations

Väo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EHolen — 60.55°N, 14.35°EHolen — 57.72°N, 11.97°EViivikonna — 59.40°N, 27.35°EKörgekallas — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKangaroo Creek — 41.38°N, 122.65°WDalby — 60.92°N, 15.09°EPakri — 59.42°N, 24.75°ELoobu — 59.42°N, 25.24°EArnestad — 60.09°N, 9.11°E

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The named rock units Eccyliopterus regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eccyliopterus regularis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eccyliopterus regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Eccyliopterus regularis, 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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

Media content1

Picture of Eccyliopterus regularis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Mickwitz
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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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. (Remelé 1888)