Eriphyla lenticularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EriphylaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Eriphyla lenticularis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Eriphyla lenticularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eriphyla lenticularis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eriphyla lenticularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Camptonectes virgatus2 sites
- Fragum2 sites
- Liopistha2 sites
- Parmicorbula2 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens2 sites
- Trigonocallista2 sites
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acanthotrigonia shepstonei1 site
- Acompsoceras1 site
- Acompsoceras renevieri1 site
- Acteonella1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) reticulata1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sigmoidea1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Baculites boulei1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Caestocorbula angustata1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Calycoceras1 site
- Chiloscyllium greeni1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Costagyra olisiponensis1 site
- Craspedodon lonzeensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Eriphyla lenticularis, 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- Biogeography of the Saharan Cretaceous and Paleocene epicontinental transgressions2
- Upper Cretaceous bivalves from the Glauconie de Lonzee near Gembloux (SE Belgium)1
- The Cenomanian-Coniacian of Sergipe Basin, Brazil1
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Eriphyla lenticularis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Eriphyla lenticularis 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 itEriphyla through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1841)