Eestilepis prominens

Eestilepis prominens is a species of thelodont, a clade of ancient jawless fish. It is the only species in the genus Eestilepis and the family Eestilepididae, though some sources lump it into the family Shieliidae. The species is known from the Cape Phillips Formation of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and dates back to the Sheinwoodian age of the Silurian.

No picture of Eestilepis prominens 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 Eestilepis prominens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EestilepisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Eestilepis prominens on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Cape Phillips — 75.62°N, 94.47°W

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

Eestilepis prominens and its relatives

Silurian

Where Eestilepis prominens and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eestilepis prominens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each 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 Eestilepis prominens 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 Eestilepis prominens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eestilepis prominens 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEestilepis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Märss et al. 2002