Eodevonaria arcuata

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
- EodevonariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
10 occurrences of Eodevonaria arcuata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
10 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Huntersville Formation1
- Stooping River Formation1
- Esopus Formation · Tristates Group1
- Kanouse Formation1
- Oriskany Formation · Tristates Group1
- Selinsgrove Formation1
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The named rock units Eodevonaria arcuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eodevonaria arcuata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Eodevonaria arcuata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Schuchertella7 sites
- Elita6 sites
- Atrypa reticularis5 sites
- Amphigenia elongata4 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana4 sites
- Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa4 sites
- Amphigenia3 sites
- Anoplia3 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Megastrophia3 sites
- Meristina nasuta3 sites
- Platyorthis3 sites
- Spirifer3 sites
- Spirifer macrus3 sites
- Acrospirifer2 sites
- Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata2 sites
- Bollia2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Centronella2 sites
- Centronella glansfagea2 sites
- Costispirifer unicus2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eodevonaria arcuata, 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- Sur la presence de Diabolirhynchia hollardi (Brachiopodes, Rhynchonellida) dans un niveau calcaire de l'Adrar mauritanien et ses consequences sur la stratigraphie du Siluro-Devonien de cette region2
- Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York2
- Fauna of the Kanouse Sandstone at Highland Mills, New York2
- Devonian stratigraphy of the Hudson Platform. Part I: stratigraphy and economic geology1
- Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia1
- Brachiopods of the Bois Blanc Formation in New York1
- Onondaga Paint-Ore Fauna from Pennsylvania1
Each of the 10 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 Eodevonaria arcuata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eodevonaria arcuata 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 itEodevonaria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1857)