Eccoptochile impedita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EccoptochilePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eccoptochile
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.7 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Eccoptochile impedita 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Eccoptochile impedita 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.
Eccoptochile impedita and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eccoptochile impedita and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Eudolatites4 sites
- Actinopeltis spjeldnaesi3 sites
- Calymenella boisseli3 sites
- Cekovia3 sites
- Chattiaspis almadenensis3 sites
- Dalmanitina (Dalmanitina) acuta3 sites
- Dreyfussina exophtalma3 sites
- Hispaniaspis morenaica3 sites
- Nobiliasaphus3 sites
- Onnia3 sites
- Prionocheilus3 sites
- Vysocania iberica3 sites
- Eccoptochile clavigera2 sites
- Leptestiina2 sites
- Portranella2 sites
- Rafinesquina lignani2 sites
- Rectograptus amplexicaulis2 sites
- Svobodaina havliceki2 sites
- ? Proheliotites sp.1 site
- Aegiromena1 site
- Aonodiscus sp.1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Calix1 site
- Destombesia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eccoptochile impedita, 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
4 references- Caradoc through early Ashgill brachiopods from the Central-Iberian Zone (central Spain)1
- Trilobites y graptolitos de las lumaquelas terminales de los "Bancos Mixtos", Ordovicico Superior de la Zona Centroiberica meridional; Elementos nuevos o poco conocidos1
- Trilobiten aus dem oberen Caradoc der ostlichen Sierra Morena (Spanien)1
- Phacopina und Cheirurina (Trilobita) aus dem Ordovizium von Spanien1
Each of the 4 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 Eccoptochile impedita 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 Eccoptochile impedita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eccoptochile impedita 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 itEccoptochile through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hammann 1972