Ecphora

Ecphora is a genus of extinct predatory ocenebrinid murexes indigenous to the North American Eastern Seaboard from Miocene until their extinction during the Pliocene. The common name for this genus and a group of related genera is "ecphora"(s).

Ecphora

The original uploader was Ecphora at English Wikipedia . · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
RapaninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 14 of 129 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 129 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 129 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 129 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 78 of 129 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 129 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 129 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 31 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.4–6.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.6–3.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.8–960 ka Mya — about 24 occurrences72.2 Mya3.6 Mya85 Mya960 ka

129 occurrences of Ecphora on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

129 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

26 formations

Choptank — 38.46°N, 76.47°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.77°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.69°N, 76.69°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.42°N, 76.62°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WYorktown — 37.22°N, 76.93°WYorktown — 37.17°N, 76.77°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.43°WEastover — 37.22°N, 76.93°WEastover — 37.79°N, 76.72°WEastover — 37.17°N, 76.77°WEastover — 37.82°N, 76.75°WEastover — 37.71°N, 76.97°WEastover — 37.51°N, 77.21°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.45°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WSt Marys — 38.32°N, 76.42°WSaint Marys — 37.69°N, 76.97°WSaint Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSaint Marys — 37.86°N, 76.84°WSaint Marys — 38.18°N, 76.45°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WSt Mary's — 37.56°N, 76.78°WMurdock Station — 25.90°N, 81.30°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WOld Church — 37.10°N, 76.39°WOld Church — 37.51°N, 77.21°WBelgrade — 34.89°N, 77.23°WBelgrade — 34.77°N, 77.18°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WRiver Bend — 35.11°N, 77.04°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WRaysor — 33.33°N, 80.15°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WBayshore — 27.03°N, 82.17°W

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The named rock units Ecphora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ecphora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ecphora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,846 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Ecphora, 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

31 references

Each of the 129 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. 19 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 content3

Picture of Ecphora

Credit
The original uploader was Ecphora at English Wikipedia .
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae Wilson

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1843