Endoplegma calathus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndoplegmaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya283.3 Mya306.6 Mya273.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Endoplegma calathus 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

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

Road Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WGraford — 33.23°N, 97.83°W

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

Endoplegma calathus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Endoplegma calathus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Endoplegma calathus, 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

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. 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

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

No 3D scan of Endoplegma calathus 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.

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What may have been alongside itEndoplegma through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finks 1960