Eccentrotheca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TommotiidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tommotiida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tommotiida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tommotiida
- Vision
- blindPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
41 occurrences of Eccentrotheca on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
41 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
9 formations
- Weymouth Formation15
- Fosters Point Formation · Bonavista Group8
- Lower Comley Formation6
- Chapel Island Formation4
- Cuslett Formation3
- Brigus Formation2
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The named rock units Eccentrotheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eccentrotheca and its relatives
CambrianWhere Eccentrotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Sunnaginia imbricata23 sites
- Torellella laevigata21 sites
- Ladatheca cylindrica14 sites
- Halkieria13 sites
- Chancelloria12 sites
- Micromitra12 sites
- Rhombocorniculum cancellatum12 sites
- Allatheca degeeri11 sites
- Coleoloides typicalis10 sites
- Conotheca australiensis10 sites
- Lapworthella9 sites
- Camenella baltica8 sites
- Aldanella attleborensis7 sites
- Caveacus7 sites
- Hertzina7 sites
- Hyolithes7 sites
- Plinthokonion arethion7 sites
- Pelagiella5 sites
- Amphigeisina danica4 sites
- Anabarites korobovi4 sites
- Cowiella reticulata4 sites
- Cupitheca4 sites
- Gracilitheca bayonet4 sites
- Hyolithellus micans4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Eccentrotheca, 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
11 references- Lower Cambrian of eastern Massachusetts: stratigraphy and small shelly fossils15
- Upper Placentian-Branchian series of mainland Nova Scotia (middle-upper Lower Cambrian) faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision11
- The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England5
- Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island: faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision2
- Uppermost Precambrian(?)-Lower Cambrian of mainland Nova Scotia: faunas, depositional environments, and stratigraphic revision2
- Ontogeny and microstructure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid Sunnaginia Missarzhevsky, 19691
- The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny1
- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia1
- Lower Cambrian archaeocyathan buildups, Todd River Dolomite, northeast Amadeus Basin, central Australia: sedimentology and diagenesis1
- The Placentian Series: Appearance of the oldest skeletalized faunas in southeastern Newfoundland1
- Faunas and depositional environments of the Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian, southeastern Newfoundland1
Each of the 41 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 Eccentrotheca was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Eccentrotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eccentrotheca 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.
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What may have been alongside itTommotiida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Landing et al. 1980