Eriptycha

No picture of Eriptycha 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 Eriptycha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RingiculidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 22 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence121.4 Mya59.24 Mya164 Mya54 Mya

22 occurrences of Eriptycha on record, most of them in the Early 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

22 occurrences

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

7 formations

Hiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.94°EHiraiga — 39.83°N, 141.98°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°ERipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WKimigahama — 35.72°N, 140.87°E

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The named rock units Eriptycha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eriptycha and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Eriptycha and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

527 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Eriptycha, 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

7 references

Each of the 22 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 content0

No picture of Eriptycha 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 Eriptycha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eriptycha 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 itRingiculidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1876