Erettopterus waylandsmithi
No picture of Erettopterus waylandsmithi 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 Erettopterus waylandsmithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErettopterusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 422.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Erettopterus waylandsmithi 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Erettopterus waylandsmithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Erettopterus waylandsmithi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Erettopterus waylandsmithi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Acutiramus floweri1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hydrozoa1 site
- Leperditia1 site
- Lingulidae1 site
- Mixopterus1 site
- Vernonaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Erettopterus waylandsmithi, 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
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 Erettopterus waylandsmithi 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 Erettopterus waylandsmithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erettopterus waylandsmithi 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 itErettopterus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kjellesvig-Waering and Caster 1955)