Ecphora proquadricostata
No picture of Ecphora proquadricostata 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 proquadricostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EcphoraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Ecphora proquadricostata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group9
- Wolfe City Formation1
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group1
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The named rock units Ecphora proquadricostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ecphora proquadricostata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ecphora proquadricostata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
544 taxa- Graciliala calcaris10 sites
- Laxispira lumbricalis10 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria10 sites
- Turritella trilira10 sites
- Turritella vertebroides10 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum9 sites
- Paladmete gardnerae9 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella9 sites
- Beretra gracilis8 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus8 sites
- Cossmannia tennesseensis8 sites
- Creonella subangulata8 sites
- Morea marylandica8 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus7 sites
- Caveola acuta7 sites
- Creonella triplicata7 sites
- Drilluta distans7 sites
- Fulgerca attenuata7 sites
- Liopeplum leioderma7 sites
- Remera stephensoni7 sites
- Sargana stantoni7 sites
- Acteon pistilliformis6 sites
- Alvania tallahatchiensis6 sites
- Amuletum6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ecphora proquadricostata, 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
5 references- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations7
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf1
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Ecphora proquadricostata 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 proquadricostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ecphora proquadricostata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEcphora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wade 1917