Eoobolus

No picture of Eoobolus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eoobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EoobolidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Linguloidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 171 of 171 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 2 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 2 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 2 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 2 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 2 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 3 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 5 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 6 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 6 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 6 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 6 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 7 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 18 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 18 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 18 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 19 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 16 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 11 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 10 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 8 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 3 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya506.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

171 occurrences of Eoobolus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

171 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

23 formations

Mernmerna Formation — 30.72°S, 139.18°EMernmerna Formation — 31.85°S, 140.63°EMernmerna Formation — 31.00°S, 139.26°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°EAjax Limestone — 30.60°S, 138.33°EMernmerna — 31.00°S, 139.26°EMernmerna — 31.02°S, 139.24°EMernmerna — 30.79°S, 139.14°EForteau — 49.60°N, 57.83°WForteau — 49.52°N, 57.82°WWirrapowie Limestone — 30.79°S, 139.14°EDengying — 32.53°N, 107.92°EDengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.18°EWilkawillina Limestone — 31.85°S, 140.63°EBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WBastion — 73.52°N, 24.68°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.54°N, 2.80°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WNepabunna Siltstone — 30.72°S, 139.18°EAndamooka Limestone — 30.12°S, 137.01°EAndamooka Limestone — 30.12°S, 137.16°EAftenstjernesø — 81.57°N, 42.92°WAftenstjernesø — 81.59°N, 42.23°WShackleton Limestone — 82.22°S, 160.33°ECape Melville — 62.03°S, 57.60°WSinsk — 61.08°N, 126.58°EKinzers — 39.92°N, 76.85°WStephen — 51.18°N, 116.08°WShipai — 30.79°N, 111.17°EBuen — 82.22°N, 29.97°WShuijingtuo — 32.49°N, 107.12°EPardailhan — 43.34°N, 2.52°EXinji — 34.77°N, 110.62°EEl Gavilán — 29.28°N, 110.58°W

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The named rock units Eoobolus 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.

Eoobolus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Eoobolus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 166 sites for Eoobolus, 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

22 references

Each of the 171 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. 10 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 content0

No picture of Eoobolus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eoobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eoobolus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1902