Eotebenna pontifex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EotebennaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Yochelcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Yochelcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Yochelcionellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Yochelcionellidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 508 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 503 Mya.
2 occurrences of Eotebenna pontifex 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
2 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 Eotebenna pontifex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eotebenna pontifex and its relatives
CambrianWhere Eotebenna pontifex and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Protowenella flemingi2 sites
- ? Gogiidae indet.1 site
- Acanthotheca junior1 site
- Anabarella1 site
- Anhuiconus agrenon1 site
- Bemella1 site
- Cambraster1 site
- Coreospira1 site
- Corystos thorntoniensis1 site
- Dorispira accordionata1 site
- Dorispira merino1 site
- Dorispira penecyrano1 site
- Dorispira terraustralis1 site
- Eocrinoidea1 site
- Eotebenna papilio1 site
- Figurina1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Mellopegma1 site
- Mellopegma georginense1 site
- Mellopegma simesi1 site
- Pelagiella deltoides1 site
- Pollicina1 site
- Pseudomyona queenslandica1 site
- Redlichia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eotebenna pontifex, 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
2 references- New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia1
- Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Eotebenna pontifex 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 Eotebenna pontifex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eotebenna pontifex 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 itEotebenna through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Runnegar and Jell 1976