Ecculiomphalus

Ecculiomphalus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiletidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 94 occurrencesOrdovician — about 91 of 94 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 94 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 94 occurrencesDevonian491–487 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–480 Mya — about 6 occurrences480–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–473 Mya — about 10 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 11 occurrences470–466 Mya — about 10 occurrences466–463 Mya — about 8 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 13 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 13 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 4 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–389 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483.4 Mya393.47 Mya491 Mya386 Mya

94 occurrences of Ecculiomphalus 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

94 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

46 formations

Shan Majiagou — 39.00°N, 115.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 111.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 113.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 113.00°EShan Majiagou — 40.00°N, 112.00°EShan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°EHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EHonghuayuan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 110.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°ECrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.40°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WAntelope Valley — 37.35°N, 115.77°WAntelope Valley — 38.96°N, 116.49°WLianjiashan — 39.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 115.00°ELianjiashan — 41.00°N, 118.00°EFengfeng — 38.00°N, 114.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 114.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 113.00°ESandaogou — 35.00°N, 107.00°ESandaogou — 37.00°N, 107.00°ESandaogou — 36.00°N, 107.00°EBalclatchie — 55.23°N, 4.87°WTable Point — 50.37°N, 57.54°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 41.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 38.00°N, 113.00°EKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EFort Cassin — 44.77°N, 73.49°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.30°WKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.60°WWatts Bight — 48.55°N, 58.73°WRockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°WSeby Limestone — 60.91°N, 15.02°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EJianlin — 18.40°N, 109.25°ELaozai — 23.00°N, 104.00°EFengxiang — 31.00°N, 111.00°E

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The named rock units Ecculiomphalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Ecculiomphalus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ecculiomphalus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Ecculiomphalus, 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

44 references

Each of the 94 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. 32 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 Ecculiomphalus

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Portlock 1843)