Eoptychia sulcata
No picture of Eoptychia sulcata 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 Eoptychia sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EoptychiaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eoptychia sulcata 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Eoptychia sulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eoptychia sulcata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Eoptychia sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Amphissites2 sites
- Amphissitidae2 sites
- Archaeocidaris2 sites
- Aulacella interlineata2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Chonetipustula concentrica2 sites
- Cladochonus2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Crurithyris urei2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Echinozoa2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hollinella2 sites
- Hyattechinus2 sites
- Kirkbya2 sites
- Krotovia2 sites
- Leptagonia analoga2 sites
- Omegops2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Penniretepora2 sites
- Polytaxicidaris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eoptychia sulcata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Eoptychia sulcata 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 Eoptychia sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eoptychia sulcata 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 itEoptychia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1881)