Ectomaria orientalis

No picture of Ectomaria orientalis 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 Ectomaria orientalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EctomariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 481.7 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471.3 Mya448.8 Mya482.4 Mya444.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Ectomaria orientalis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

3 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

3 formations

Port Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WCroisaphuill — 58.62°N, 4.87°W

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The named rock units Ectomaria orientalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ectomaria orientalis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ectomaria orientalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ectomaria orientalis, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. 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

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No picture of Ectomaria orientalis 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 Ectomaria orientalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ectomaria orientalis 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 itEctomaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Donald 1906)