Ekvasophyllum eastoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EkvasophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ekvasophyllum eastoni 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
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The named rock units Ekvasophyllum eastoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ekvasophyllum eastoni and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ekvasophyllum eastoni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Choristites glennfoxi2 sites
- Euomphalus2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Amplexus1 site
- Anomphalus1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Clisiophyllum panamintense1 site
- Composita1 site
- Dictyoclostus1 site
- Enygmophyllum californiense1 site
- Heintzella whitneyi1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Meniscophyllum durhami1 site
- Mesochorispira grimesi1 site
- Murchisonia1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Paracosmetocrinus corycia1 site
- Platyceras1 site
- Productella1 site
- Proetus1 site
- Rotiphyllum occidentale1 site
- Schizophoria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ekvasophyllum eastoni, 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- Mississippian and Devonian paleontology and stratigraphy, Quartz Spring area Inyo County, California2
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Ekvasophyllum eastoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEkvasophyllum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Langenheim and Tischler 1960