Ellipsella calcar
No picture of Ellipsella calcar 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 Ellipsella calcar, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OliganisusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ellipsella calcar 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ellipsella calcar has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ellipsella calcar and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ellipsella calcar and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Acharax radiata1 site
- Aclisina1 site
- Aviculopecten occidentalis1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdia grahamensis1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Bythocypris tomlinsoni1 site
- Cavellina pulchella1 site
- Deltopecten1 site
- Economolopsis anodontoides1 site
- Edmondia gibbosa1 site
- Edmondia glabra1 site
- Euphemites1 site
- Fabalicypris acetalata1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Gervillia longa1 site
- Healdia1 site
- Jonesina1 site
- Kirkbya1 site
- Lindstroemella patula1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Metacoceras cornutum1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ellipsella calcar, 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- Fauna of the McAlester Shale, Pennsylvanian, of Muskogee County, Oklahoma1
- Pennsylvanian Ostracods of Oklahoma and Texas1
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 content0
No picture of Ellipsella calcar 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 Ellipsella calcar, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ellipsella calcar 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOliganisus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harlton 1928)