Epistomia

Epistomia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpistomiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya125.77 Mya169.1 Mya120.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Epistomia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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.

Epistomia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Epistomia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Epistomia, 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

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. 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 Epistomia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Epistomia 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 itEpistomiidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1828