Entomozoe

Entomozoe

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BolbozoidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 166 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Silurian — about 17 of 37 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 17 of 37 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 37 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 37 occurrencesPermian442–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–424 Mya — about 8 occurrences424–418 Mya — about 9 occurrences418–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–406 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–376 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences376–370 Mya — about 9 occurrences370–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–339 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences432.9 Mya266.9 Mya442 Mya261 Mya

37 occurrences of Entomozoe 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

37 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

8 formations

Daihua — 24.98°N, 107.53°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°ECardano — 42.97°N, 0.87°WSamuelsen Høj — 80.00°N, 22.00°WRahal Shale — 34.03°N, 6.85°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°W

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The named rock units Entomozoe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Entomozoe and its relatives

Silurian

Where Entomozoe and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Entomozoe, 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

16 references

Each of the 37 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. 4 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 Entomozoe

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Entomozoe 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 itBolbozoidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl 1950