Eptingium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EptingiidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 188.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 5 of 185 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 128 of 185 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 48 of 185 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 185 occurrencesEarly Jurassic250–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 11 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 34 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 62 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 15 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 7 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 13 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 19 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 9 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya201.4 Mya250 Mya188 Mya

185 occurrences of Eptingium on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

185 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

14 formations

Sandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 52.76°N, 131.57°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WSandilands — 53.90°N, 133.15°WFang Chert — 19.53°N, 98.96°ESemanggol — 6.13°N, 100.48°ESemanggol — 6.10°N, 100.55°ESemanggol — 6.20°N, 100.53°ESemanggol — 5.53°N, 100.63°ELiminangcong — 12.06°N, 120.18°EMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°EXinyuan — 25.62°N, 106.60°EXinyuan — 32.99°N, 107.84°ESlate Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°ESan Hipolito — 29.99°N, 113.98°WGökdere — 36.87°N, 31.68°EOtuk — 68.37°N, 162.83°WSandstone Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°EYingshuiquan — 35.50°N, 86.25°EGoulushankecuo — 35.50°N, 86.25°EZulla — 23.23°N, 57.03°E

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The named rock units Eptingium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 112 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eptingium and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Eptingium and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

346 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Eptingium, 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

33 references

Each of the 185 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Eptingium 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 itEptingiidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica 1978