Eripnifera praecipitis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EripniferaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Eripnifera praecipitis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Eripnifera praecipitis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eripnifera praecipitis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eripnifera praecipitis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Hesperorthis9 sites
- Ptychopleurella uniplicata9 sites
- Anoptambonites myriomorpheus5 sites
- Austinella kankakensis5 sites
- Amblysiphonella grossa4 sites
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis4 sites
- Diochthofera conspicua4 sites
- Epitomyonia relicina4 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi4 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata4 sites
- Salopina horseshoensis4 sites
- Skenidioides multifarius4 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus4 sites
- Taphrorthis4 sites
- Anoptambonites3 sites
- Corymbospongia adnata3 sites
- Cystothalamiella ducta3 sites
- Elasmothyris limata3 sites
- Laticrura erecta3 sites
- Rigbyetia obconica3 sites
- Scaphorthis3 sites
- Sigmelasma3 sites
- Corymbospongia2 sites
- Girtyocoelia epiporata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eripnifera praecipitis, 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 9 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
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No picture of Eripnifera praecipitis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eripnifera praecipitis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eripnifera praecipitis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itEripnifera through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potter 1990