Eospondylus

Eospondylus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EospondylidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Phrynophiurida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Phrynophiurida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phrynophiurida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Phrynophiurida

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya387.95 Mya413.6 Mya381.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Eospondylus 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

4 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

2 formations

Selscheid — 51.17°N, 7.92°EGrzegorzowice — 50.88°N, 21.03°E

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The named rock units Eospondylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eospondylus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eospondylus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eospondylus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Eospondylus

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Eospondylus 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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What may have been alongside itEospondylidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gregory 1897