Epacrothyris pectoralis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpacrothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stethothyridinae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Stethothyridinae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Stethothyridinae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Epacrothyris pectoralis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Wilson Bluff Formation7
- Werillup Formation · Plantagenet Group2
- Wilson Bluff Limestone Formation1
- Werrilup Formation · Plantagenet Group1
- Tortachilla Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Epacrothyris pectoralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epacrothyris pectoralis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Epacrothyris pectoralis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aldingia furculifera5 sites
- Aliquantula insolita4 sites
- Terebratulina christopheri4 sites
- Aliquantula tapirina3 sites
- Liothyrella labiata3 sites
- Diedrothyris johnstoniana2 sites
- Liothyrella bulbosa2 sites
- Liothyrella subcarnea2 sites
- Magadinella woodsiana2 sites
- Victorithyris tateana2 sites
- Westralicrania zenobiae2 sites
- Epacrothyris sufflata1 site
- Murravia triangularis1 site
- Victorithyris garibaldiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Epacrothyris pectoralis, 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
3 references- The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of the Bremer and Eucla Basins, southwest Western Australia10
- Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin2
- A reappraisal of the systematics of the Stethothyris group of brachiopods from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and Australia1
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Epacrothyris pectoralis 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 Epacrothyris pectoralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epacrothyris pectoralis 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 itEpacrothyris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tate 1880)