Eostropheodonta schmalenseei

Kala, E. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EostropheodontaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eostropheodonta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eostropheodonta
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Eostropheodonta
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Eostropheodonta schmalenseei 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Eostropheodonta schmalenseei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eostropheodonta schmalenseei and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eostropheodonta schmalenseei and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Cliftonia psittacina4 sites
- Leptaena rugosa3 sites
- Draborthis caelebs2 sites
- Eostropheodonta hirnantensis2 sites
- Hirnantia sagittifera2 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria1 site
- Fardenia (Coolinia)1 site
- Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus1 site
- Paromalomena macmahoni1 site
- Proboscisambon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Eostropheodonta schmalenseei, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Eostropheodonta schmalenseei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kala, E.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itEostropheodonta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bergström 1968