Exochops
No picture of Exochops 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 Exochops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GriffithidinaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Exochops on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- White Pine Shale Formation1
- Lodgepole Formation · Madison Group1
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The named rock units Exochops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Exochops and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Exochops and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Syringopora2 sites
- ? Finestrella sp.1 site
- Athyris lamellosa1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Cactocrinus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Cheilotrypa1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Chonetes logani1 site
- Cleiothyridnia sublamellosa1 site
- Cleistopora1 site
- Composita1 site
- Culmicrinus1 site
- Delthyris1 site
- Dictyoclostus1 site
- Dictyoclostus inflatus1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Dinotocrinus1 site
- Edmondia1 site
- Eumetria1 site
- Euomphalidae1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Fenestralia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Exochops, 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
2 references- Geology of the Eastern Flank of the Little Belt Mountains with emphasis on Carbonate Buildup; Judith Basin County, Montana1
- Mississippian Joana Limestone of Cordilleran miogeosyncline and use of Ca/Mg ratio in correlation1
Each of the 2 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 Exochops 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 Exochops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Exochops 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 itGriffithidinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1936