Endopachys maclurii

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EndopachysPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
64 occurrences of Endopachys maclurii on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
64 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
10 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group26
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group13
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Yazoo Clay Formation2
- Cockfield Formation1
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The named rock units Endopachys maclurii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Endopachys maclurii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Endopachys maclurii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
569 taxa- Hipponix29 sites
- Turritella27 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta24 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus24 sites
- Gastropoda24 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana20 sites
- Discotrochus20 sites
- Bullata semen19 sites
- Cadulus19 sites
- Corbula densata19 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme19 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta19 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata19 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus18 sites
- Retusa galba18 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda18 sites
- Athleta petrosa17 sites
- Bivalvia17 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella16 sites
- Lunulitidae16 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta16 sites
- Naticidae16 sites
- Alveinus minutus15 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Endopachys maclurii, 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
7 references- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)16
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi16
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area15
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region13
- The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species2
- Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 64 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 content1

Picture of Endopachys maclurii
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itEndopachys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)