Eothele

No picture of Eothele 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 Eothele, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrothelidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 208 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 301.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 300.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 54 of 57 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 57 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 57 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 57 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 57 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 57 occurrences544–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–527 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences527–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–511 Mya — about 25 occurrences511–502 Mya — about 20 occurrences502–494 Mya — about 8 occurrences313–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences509.7 Mya301.4 Mya544 Mya296 Mya

57 occurrences of Eothele 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

57 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

12 formations

Forteau — 49.52°N, 57.71°WForteau — 49.52°N, 57.82°WTindall Limestone — 13.33°S, 130.63°ETindall Limestone — 13.50°S, 131.07°ETindall Limestone — 13.88°S, 131.15°ETindall Limestone — 13.82°S, 131.35°ETindall Limestone — 14.25°S, 131.38°ETindall Limestone — 14.50°S, 132.17°ETindall Limestone — 13.68°S, 131.33°ETindall Limestone — 14.42°S, 132.25°EPioche Shale — 37.77°N, 114.56°WPioche Shale — 37.61°N, 114.76°WPioche Shale — 37.53°N, 114.73°WGiles Creek Dolostone — 23.61°S, 134.48°EWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EPreble — 38.87°N, 117.92°WCoonigan — 31.17°S, 141.32°EHarkless — 37.36°N, 117.36°WKinzers — 39.92°N, 76.85°WCarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WBuelna — 29.28°N, 110.58°WEl Gavilán — 29.28°N, 110.58°W

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The named rock units Eothele 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.

Eothele and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Eothele and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

214 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Eothele, 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

14 references

Each of the 57 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Eothele 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 Eothele, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eothele 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 itAcrothelidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rowell 1980