Eptingium
Searched as Eptingium manfredi robustum n. ssp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Eptingium as the accepted name.
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.
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 most 4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 239.48 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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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.
Eptingium and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Eptingium and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
346 taxa- Triassocampe43 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera38 sites
- Triassocampe coronata36 sites
- Triassocampe myterocorys36 sites
- Triassocampe deweveri33 sites
- Plafkerium32 sites
- Oertlispongus30 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera japonica30 sites
- Hozmadia28 sites
- Spongosilicarmiger25 sites
- Archaeosemantis23 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera longispinosa23 sites
- Hindeosphaera spinulosa22 sites
- Plafkerium antiquum22 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera compacta20 sites
- Entactinosphaera19 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla19 sites
- Triassocampe scalaris19 sites
- Cryptostephanidium18 sites
- Oertlispongus inaequispinosus18 sites
- Pantanellium17 sites
- Spumellaria17 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum16 sites
- Cryptostephanidium cornigerum16 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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 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.
Keep going
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