Epitomyonia

Epitomyonia

Rubel, Madis · 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
DicoelosiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 448.8 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 36 of 82 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 46 of 82 occurrencesSilurian453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 5 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 5 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 6 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 8 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 8 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448.8 Mya430.6 Mya453.4 Mya422.1 Mya

82 occurrences of Epitomyonia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

82 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

26 formations

Whittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.40°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 63.10°N, 127.40°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.00°WShiyang — 28.71°N, 118.40°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.04°N, 14.41°EHorseshoe Gulch — 41.44°N, 122.76°WAnji — 28.71°N, 118.35°EAnji — 29.50°N, 118.94°EÕhne — 58.14°N, 25.37°EÕhne — 58.28°N, 24.09°EÕhne — 58.75°N, 26.87°ELangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°EDomusnovas — 40.34°N, 8.69°EDomusnovas — 39.44°N, 8.42°ENiuchang — 27.71°N, 107.55°EChangwu — 28.71°N, 118.51°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°EPorto de Santa Anna — 40.33°N, 8.35°WHusbergoya Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°ECyrn-y-brain — 52.93°N, 3.18°WKorotkinskaya — 75.25°N, 99.90°EAngrensor — 51.23°N, 74.72°EKráluv Dvur — 50.03°N, 14.31°ETelsitna — 62.12°N, 155.02°WQarabil — 37.38°N, 56.34°EKuldiga — 56.22°N, 21.20°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°E

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The named rock units Epitomyonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epitomyonia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Epitomyonia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

777 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Epitomyonia, 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

32 references

Each of the 82 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. 20 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 content1

Picture of Epitomyonia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Rubel, Madis
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright 1968