Euconia etna

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuconiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 8.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
16 occurrences of Euconia etna 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
16 occurrences- Cambrian5%
- Ordovician95%
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
8 formations
- Croisaphuill Formation · Durness Group4
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group3
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group2
- Honeycut Formation · Ellenburger Group2
- Sailmhor Formation · Durness Group2
- Fort Ann Formation1
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The named rock units Euconia etna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Euconia etna and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Euconia etna and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Euchasma blumenbachi4 sites
- Lophospira perangulata3 sites
- Allopiloceras bealachense2 sites
- Cassinoceras wortheni2 sites
- Ceratopea canadensis2 sites
- Ectomaria adelina2 sites
- Lecanospira compacta2 sites
- Maclurites oceana2 sites
- Malayaspira bella2 sites
- Palliseria acuminata2 sites
- Raphistomina hortensia2 sites
- Straparollina pelagica2 sites
- Apocrinoceras1 site
- Archinacella pileolum1 site
- Augeoceras gracile1 site
- Bathyurellus1 site
- Bathyurellus abruptus1 site
- Benthamaspis1 site
- Benthamaspis conica1 site
- Benthamaspis gibberula1 site
- Billingsella1 site
- Bisonoceras hornei1 site
- Bolbocephalus convexus1 site
- Bridgeites volutatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Euconia etna, 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
9 references- The geological structure of the north-west Highlands of Scotland6
- Ordovician gastropods from Western Newfoundland2
- Palaeozoic fossils, volume 12
- Macropaleontological investigation of the Upper St. George Group, West Isthmus Bay to East Bay section, Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland1
- Organic buildups in the Lower Ordovician (Canadian) of Texas and Oklahoma1
- New gastropods and trilobites critical in the correlation of Lower Ordovician rocks1
- Observations on some imperfectly known fossils from the Calciferous sandrock of Lake Champlain, and descriptions of several new forms1
- Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered1
- On the succession of the older rocks in the northernmost counties of Scotland; with some observations on the Orkney and Shetland Islands1
Each of the 16 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 Euconia etna
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No 3D scan of Euconia etna 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 itEuconia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)