Ectosteorachis nitidus
No picture of Ectosteorachis nitidus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ectosteorachis nitidus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 8.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ectosteorachis nitidus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Ectosteorachis nitidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ectosteorachis nitidus and its relatives
PermianWhere Ectosteorachis nitidus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Annularia1 site
- Archeria crassidisca1 site
- Bolosaurus striatus1 site
- Calamites1 site
- Calamites undulatus1 site
- Callipteridium1 site
- Callipteris1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Dadoxylon1 site
- Diadectes1 site
- Dimetrodon natalis1 site
- Edaphosaurus boanerges1 site
- Eryops megacephalus1 site
- Hemitelites hemitelioides1 site
- Hexapoda1 site
- Odontopteris1 site
- Ophiacodon retroversus1 site
- Ophiacodon uniformis1 site
- Orthacanthus texensis1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Pecopteris1 site
- Pinnularia1 site
- Psaronius1 site
- Russellites sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ectosteorachis nitidus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Ectosteorachis nitidus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ectosteorachis nitidus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Ectosteorachis nitidus 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 itFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.