Eridmatus texanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EridmatusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 264.28 Mya.
12 occurrences of Eridmatus texanus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
12 occurrences- Carboniferous75%
- Permian25%
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
5 formations
- Graham Formation4
- Gaptank Formation3
- Neal Ranch Formation2
- Wolf Mountain Formation · Canyon Group2
- Nosoni Formation1
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The named rock units Eridmatus texanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eridmatus texanus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Eridmatus texanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Crurithyris planoconvexa6 sites
- Hustedia mormoni5 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis5 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer5 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari5 sites
- Composita subtilita4 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis4 sites
- Meekella texana4 sites
- Reticulatia4 sites
- Astartella concentrica3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Kozlowskia capaci3 sites
- Martinia wolfcampensis3 sites
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Phestia3 sites
- Productus semistriatus3 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
- Cancrinella boonensis2 sites
- Chonetinella spinolirata2 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa2 sites
- Conocardioidea2 sites
- Echinaria2 sites
- Economolopsis anodontoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Eridmatus texanus, 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
4 references- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda5
- Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas4
- Biostratigraphy of the Graford Formation, Missourian, Wise County, Texas2
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Permian Nosoni and Dekkas Formations (Bollibokka Group)1
Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eridmatus texanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Eridmatus texanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eridmatus texanus 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 itEridmatus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1871)