Eoharpes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarpetidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Harpetidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Harpetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
18 occurrences of Eoharpes on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
18 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
14 formations
- Traveusot Formation3
- Sarka Formation2
- Dobrotiva Formation2
- Day Point Formation1
- Crown Point Formation1
- Laval Formation1
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The named rock units Eoharpes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eoharpes and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eoharpes and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
461 taxa- Basilicus4 sites
- Bumastus4 sites
- Calliops4 sites
- Dionide4 sites
- Ectillaenus4 sites
- Isotelus4 sites
- Multicostella4 sites
- Nobiliasaphus4 sites
- Prionocheilus4 sites
- Selenopeltis4 sites
- Sphaerexochus4 sites
- Bolboporites3 sites
- Bucania3 sites
- Camerella3 sites
- Corrugatagnostus morea3 sites
- Dactylogonia3 sites
- Eccoptochile mariana3 sites
- Hesperorthis3 sites
- Kawina3 sites
- Lonchodomas3 sites
- Mimella3 sites
- Palaeocystites3 sites
- Parabarrandia3 sites
- Pateraspis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Eoharpes, 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- Trilobites ordoviciens du Massif armoricain2
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Ordovician Chazy Group in southern Quebec2
- Ordovician trilobites from the Tafilalt Lagerstätte: new data and reappraisal of the Bou Nemrou assemblage1
- Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China1
- Two unique Middle Ordovician trilobites from the Prague Basin, Czech Republic1
- Chlupáč et al., 19981
- Trilobites from the Ordovician of Portugal1
- Ordovician (Llanvirn) Trilobites from SW Wales1
- The stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician of central Portugal1
- Middle to late Ordovician fossiliferous rocks of the Montreal area1
- The trilobite genus Eoharpes from the Ordovician of Brittany and Portugal1
Each of the 18 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 Eoharpes
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itHarpetidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1905)