Endolobus

Endolobus is an extinct genus from the nautiloid order, Nautilida. Nautiloids are a subclass of shelled cephalopods that were once diverse and numerous but are now represented by only a handful of species, including Nautilus. Endolubus is included in the family Koninckioceratidae which is part of the superfamily Tainoceratoidea.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TemnocheilidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 15 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 19 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 2 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–328 Mya — about 4 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 3 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences321–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335.9 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

19 occurrences of Endolobus 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

19 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

9 formations

Fayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.08°WFayetteville — 35.74°N, 91.82°WFayetteville — 35.85°N, 93.97°WFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.21°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.67°WMauch Chunk — 41.03°N, 79.62°WHale — 36.05°N, 94.23°WLoping — 27.40°N, 114.60°ELueders — 33.53°N, 99.27°WSteshev — 54.88°N, 37.44°EBarnett — 30.67°N, 99.35°W

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The named rock units Endolobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Endolobus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Endolobus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

235 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Endolobus, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Endolobus 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.

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 itTemnocheilidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek et al. 1865