Eocamptonectes papillatus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EocamptonectesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
34 occurrences of Eocamptonectes papillatus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
34 occurrences- Permian100%
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
7 formations
- Road Canyon Formation18
- Cathedral Mountain Formation7
- Word Formation3
- Cherry Canyon Formation3
- Hess Formation1
- Capitan Formation1
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The named rock units Eocamptonectes papillatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eocamptonectes papillatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Eocamptonectes papillatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
982 taxa- Meekella calathica24 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys23 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus22 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus22 sites
- Megousia auriculata21 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa21 sites
- Cyrtorostra varicostata20 sites
- Derbyia laqueata20 sites
- Annuliconcha dentata19 sites
- Echinauris irregularis19 sites
- Prospondylus acinetus18 sites
- Composita16 sites
- Derbyia16 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata16 sites
- Derbyia informis16 sites
- Hustedia16 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata16 sites
- Schematochiton arthurcooperi16 sites
- Texarina wordensis16 sites
- Dielasma15 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata14 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata14 sites
- Pernopecten yini14 sites
- Streblopteria montpelierensis14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Eocamptonectes papillatus, 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 referencesEach of the 34 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 Eocamptonectes papillatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- 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 itEocamptonectes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)