Edmondia
Searched as Edmondia hartii. The Paleobiology Database treats Edmondia as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EdmondiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Edmondia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Murphy Road Formation · Windsor Group2
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The named rock units Edmondia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Edmondia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Edmondia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
2,761 taxa- Aviculopecten52 sites
- Crinoidea37 sites
- Nuculopsis28 sites
- Schizodus28 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis24 sites
- Parallelodon24 sites
- Composita22 sites
- Composita subtilita22 sites
- Chonetes19 sites
- Streblopteria18 sites
- Bryozoa17 sites
- Leptodesma17 sites
- Spirifer17 sites
- Dielasma16 sites
- Permophorus16 sites
- Aviculopecten arctisulcatus15 sites
- Derbyia crassa15 sites
- Fenestella15 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari15 sites
- Sanguinolites15 sites
- Wilkingia terminale15 sites
- Permophorus albequus14 sites
- Septimyalina14 sites
- Cleiothyridina13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 345 sites for Edmondia, and this reads 240 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Edmondia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Edmondia 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 itEdmondiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Koninck 1841