Eotomaria notabilis

Eotomaria notabilis

Koken · 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
EotomariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 7.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 456.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456.8 Mya449.5 Mya458.5 Mya444.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Eotomaria notabilis 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

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

4 formations

Dalby — 58.77°N, 17.43°ESaunja — 58.96°N, 22.31°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°EMoe — 59.02°N, 23.14°E

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The named rock units Eotomaria notabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eotomaria notabilis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eotomaria notabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eotomaria notabilis, 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 Eotomaria notabilis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Koken
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 itEotomaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Eichwald 1840)