Eritropis
No picture of Eritropis 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 Eritropis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EritropidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eritropis 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Eritropis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eritropis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eritropis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Johnmartinia cordata2 sites
- Johnmartinia orbicularis2 sites
- Alococoncha crassatellaeformis1 site
- Camnantia ampla1 site
- Denticelox tortuosa1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glyptarca1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Modiolodon1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Praeleda1 site
- Ribeiria csiro1 site
- Tancrediopsis1 site
- Trilobita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eritropis, 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
2 references- Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs5
- Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Eritropis 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 Eritropis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEritropidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977