Eosoptychoparia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychopariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eosoptychoparia 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Eosoptychoparia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eosoptychoparia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Eosoptychoparia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Acadagnostus acadica3 sites
- Sudanomocarina sinindica3 sites
- Iranoleesia butes2 sites
- Pagetia2 sites
- Probowmaniella2 sites
- Xingrenaspis2 sites
- Elrathiella kailiensis1 site
- Homotreta1 site
- Jiumenia1 site
- Meitania similis1 site
- Metabalangia yupingensis1 site
- Modocia obscura1 site
- Mufushania1 site
- Nangaoia megaceps1 site
- Onchocephalus sanwanensis1 site
- Oryctocephalus incurvus1 site
- Pachyaspis (Danzhaina) lilia1 site
- Parablackwelderia1 site
- Proasaphiscus simoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eosoptychoparia, 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- Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya4
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China2
Each of the 6 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. 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
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No picture of Eosoptychoparia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eosoptychoparia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPtychopariidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1963