Ecphora meganae williamsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Ecphora meganaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ecphora meganae williamsi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group2
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The named rock units Ecphora meganae williamsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ecphora meganae williamsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ecphora meganae williamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Astarte obruta2 sites
- Astarte thisphila2 sites
- Bicorbula idonea2 sites
- Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens2 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius2 sites
- Concavus concavus2 sites
- Dallarca2 sites
- Dallarca staminea2 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum blackwelderi2 sites
- Marvacrassatella marylandica2 sites
- Mercenaria cuneata2 sites
- Stewartia anodonta2 sites
- Turritella terebriformis2 sites
- Cardium laqueatum laqueatum1 site
- Chesacardium laqueatum1 site
- Chesacardium laqueatum vostreysi1 site
- Chesapecten (Chesapecten) monicae1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Florimetis biplicata1 site
- Glossus marylandica1 site
- Isognomon (Hippochaeta)1 site
- Lucinoma contracta1 site
- Macrocallista marylandica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ecphora meganae williamsi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Ecphora meganae williamsi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ecphora meganae williamsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ecphora meganae williamsi was found in Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itEcphora meganae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward and Gilinsky 1988