Euestheria

Euestheria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuestheriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Branchiopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Branchiopoda

Time the record covers

At least 148 million years on record.

The record covers at least 309.8 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 314.6 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 33 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 33 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 33 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 16 of 33 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 33 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 33 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 33 occurrences318–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–307 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–245 Mya — about 12 occurrences245–239 Mya — about 4 occurrences239–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–228 Mya — about 4 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309.8 Mya161.5 Mya318 Mya149 Mya

33 occurrences of Euestheria on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

33 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

16 formations

Grès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 49.15°N, 6.86°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.69°N, 7.38°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EHassberge — 50.00°N, 10.68°EHassberge — 49.91°N, 10.52°ETiaojishan — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETiaojishan — 40.87°N, 119.99°ETiaojishan — 40.92°N, 119.65°ECerro de Las Cabras — 32.93°S, 69.22°WKayitou — 26.73°N, 104.44°EKovagoszolos — 46.08°N, 18.13°ELealt Shale — 56.92°N, 6.15°WZbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds — 50.68°N, 18.65°EBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.33°N, 2.08°WSanta Maria — 29.74°S, 53.79°WAgua de la Zorra — 32.68°S, 69.36°WWióry — 50.96°N, 21.20°EBaranów — 51.03°N, 20.87°ECotham — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSunjiagou — 35.03°N, 108.88°ELilstock — 54.26°N, 1.28°W

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The named rock units Euestheria 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.

Euestheria and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Euestheria and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Euestheria, 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

17 references

Each of the 33 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Euestheria

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itEuestheriidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Depéret and Mazeran 1912