Enterolasma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnterolasmatinaePBDB
- 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 least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
60 occurrences of Enterolasma on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
60 occurrencesThese 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
19 formations
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group16
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group7
- Irondequoit Formation · Clinton Group4
- Coeymans Formation · Helderberg Group4
- Williamson Formation · Clinton Group3
- Lockport Formation2
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The named rock units Enterolasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Enterolasma and its relatives
SilurianWhere Enterolasma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
571 taxa- Dalmanites40 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis37 sites
- Atrypa reticularis35 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus28 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis27 sites
- Favosites27 sites
- Dalmanella24 sites
- Whitfieldella23 sites
- Schuchertella21 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida21 sites
- Pterinea20 sites
- Atrypa19 sites
- Spirifer19 sites
- Fenestella17 sites
- Craniops16 sites
- Mesotrypa16 sites
- Calymene15 sites
- Chasmatopora15 sites
- Dictyonema15 sites
- Rhipidomella15 sites
- Camarotoechia neglecta14 sites
- Eodictyonella14 sites
- Homalonotus14 sites
- Stegerhynchus14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Enterolasma, 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
15 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York23
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology10
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York5
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America4
- Ziegler, 19713
- Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario3
- Bathymetry and paleoecology of Silurian benthic assemblages, late Llandoverian, New York State2
- Tyazheva et al., 19762
- Hunton Group of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma:2
- The principal Pridolian and Lochkovian rugose coral assemblages or communities in eastern North America1
- Paleoecology and Petrology of Pipe Creek Jr. Reef (Niagaran-Cayugan), Grant County, Indiana1
- Fauna und Alter der Erbslochgrauwacke (Brachiopoden und Trilobiten, Unter-Devon, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge und Harz1
Each of the 60 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Enterolasma
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Enterolasma 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEnterolasmatinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1900