Eopteria

No picture of Eopteria 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 Eopteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EopteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 13 of 64 occurrencesOrdovician — about 51 of 64 occurrencesOrdovician489–488 Mya — about 5 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 9 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 3 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 4 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 4 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 4 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence486.85 Mya449.2 Mya489.1 Mya448 Mya

64 occurrences of Eopteria 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

64 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

20 formations

Ninmaroo — 22.15°S, 140.15°ENinmaroo — 22.04°S, 140.02°ENinmaroo — 21.98°S, 140.05°ENinmaroo — 21.93°S, 140.10°ENinmaroo — 22.10°S, 140.07°ENinmaroo — 22.53°S, 140.35°ENinmaroo — 23.05°S, 139.23°ESmithville — 37.31°N, 89.88°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.29°N, 89.83°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.82°WSmithville — 36.10°N, 91.30°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 31.08°N, 98.57°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 30.66°N, 98.30°WWan-wan-kou — 38.35°N, 125.43°ECotter — 37.33°N, 89.93°WCotter — 37.30°N, 89.97°WCotter — 36.93°N, 93.06°WCotter — 37.56°N, 93.62°WCashions Creek — 42.58°S, 146.50°ECashions Creek — 42.54°S, 146.45°EAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WJefferson City — 36.99°N, 91.47°WJefferson City — 37.63°N, 93.07°WLittle Oak — 33.33°N, 86.78°WLittle Oak — 33.42°N, 86.76°WAngrensor — 51.23°N, 74.72°ETelsitna — 63.92°N, 153.66°WDuwibong — 36.97°N, 127.22°ECoolibah — 22.75°S, 138.39°EOdenville — 33.41°N, 86.78°WTyrone Limestone — 37.82°N, 84.72°WBeauharnois — 46.67°N, 71.58°WCatoche — 50.72°N, 57.37°WFort Cassin — 44.24°N, 73.32°WLa Maurerie — 43.45°N, 2.99°ECardonal — 22.23°S, 65.65°W

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The named rock units Eopteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eopteria and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eopteria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Eopteria, 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

Each of the 64 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 content0

No picture of Eopteria 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 Eopteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eopteria 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. Billings 1865