Echinoconchus
Searched as Echinoconchus exiguus. The Paleobiology Database treats Echinoconchus as the accepted name.
No picture of Echinoconchus 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 Echinoconchus, 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 most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Echinoconchus 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Murphy Road Formation · Windsor Group3
- Miller Creek and Wentworth Station Formation · Windsor Group1
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The named rock units Echinoconchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Echinoconchus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Echinoconchus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,374 taxa- Spirifer61 sites
- Cleiothyridina49 sites
- Dielasma49 sites
- Composita43 sites
- Chonetes38 sites
- Eumetria38 sites
- Linoproductus34 sites
- Crinoidea32 sites
- Orthotetes32 sites
- Aviculopecten31 sites
- Dictyoclostus31 sites
- Fenestella31 sites
- Brachythyris30 sites
- Platycrinites27 sites
- Schuchertella27 sites
- Punctospirifer26 sites
- Eomarginifera25 sites
- Productus25 sites
- Rugosochonetes24 sites
- Ovatia23 sites
- Archimedes22 sites
- Composita trinuclea22 sites
- Schizophoria22 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 277 sites for Echinoconchus, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- EDDyLab @ULiege
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Echinoconchus 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 Echinoconchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEchinoconchini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.