Echinaria

Echinaria is an extinct genus of brachiopods which lived during the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian periods. Its fossils have been found in Eurasia, North America and northern South America.

No picture of Echinaria was found. Wikipedia, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Echinaria itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Echinaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinoconchiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 101 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 85 of 101 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 16 of 101 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 4 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 7 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 4 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 5 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 9 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 27 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 27 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 5 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 1 occurrence289–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–263 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318.6 Mya276.8 Mya361 Mya263 Mya

101 occurrences of Echinaria on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

101 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

33 formations

Graham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.19°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.14°N, 98.21°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WGaptank — 30.18°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.36°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WSausbee — 35.55°N, 95.17°WSausbee — 35.75°N, 94.89°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WEly Limestone — 39.31°N, 113.64°WHarpersville — 32.90°N, 98.90°WHarpersville — 32.96°N, 98.76°WZeandale Limestone — 37.63°N, 96.37°WZeandale Limestone — 37.47°N, 96.37°WZeandale Limestone — 37.30°N, 96.47°WHale — 36.01°N, 94.19°WHale — 35.77°N, 94.47°WMadera — 35.00°N, 106.00°WIxaltepec — 17.55°N, 97.10°WStory — 33.88°N, 106.34°WThrifty — 31.50°N, 99.37°WCaddo Creek — 31.49°N, 99.31°WBrad — 31.49°N, 99.31°WAmsden — 45.75°N, 112.00°WRoot Shale — 38.66°N, 95.92°WJanesville Shale — 39.10°N, 96.37°WWyandotte — 39.11°N, 94.81°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WHare Fiord — 81.13°N, 84.33°WNaco — 34.33°N, 111.12°W

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The named rock units Echinaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinaria and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Echinaria and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

801 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Echinaria, 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

25 references

Each of the 101 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Echinaria was found. Wikipedia, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Echinaria itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Echinaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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

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