Eoscorpius distinctus
No picture of Eoscorpius distinctus 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 Eoscorpius distinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EoscorpiusPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 316.9 Mya and 314.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eoscorpius distinctus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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.
Eoscorpius distinctus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Eoscorpius distinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Anthracomartus hindi1 site
- Anthracomartus priesti1 site
- Arachnometa tuberculata1 site
- Belinurus trilobitoides1 site
- Homaloneura1 site
- Protocteniza britannica1 site
- Scalaeoptera recta1 site
- Trigonotarbus johnsoni1 site
- Weygoldtina anglica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eoscorpius distinctus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world1
- A study of the structure classification and relationships of the Palaeozoic Arachnida based on the collections of the British Museum1
Each 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
Media content0
No picture of Eoscorpius distinctus 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 Eoscorpius distinctus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eoscorpius distinctus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEoscorpius through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Petrunkevitch 1949)