Ecculiomphalus fredericus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EcculiomphalusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ecculiomphalus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ecculiomphalus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Ecculiomphalus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ecculiomphalus fredericus 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
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group4
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The named rock units Ecculiomphalus fredericus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ecculiomphalus fredericus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ecculiomphalus fredericus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Bucania sulcatina3 sites
- Isotelus harrisi3 sites
- Maclurites magnus3 sites
- Macrocoelia champlainensis3 sites
- Calyptaulax annulata2 sites
- Camerella ventricosa2 sites
- Cleionychia montrealensis2 sites
- Ctenodonta peracuta2 sites
- Cybele primus2 sites
- Eospongia2 sites
- Hibbertia valcourensis2 sites
- Lonchodomas chaziensis2 sites
- Lophospira rectistriata2 sites
- Malocystites murchisoni2 sites
- Mimella vulgaris2 sites
- Multicostella platys2 sites
- Onychoplecia longirostris2 sites
- Pliomerops canadensis2 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata2 sites
- Raphistoma stamineum2 sites
- Raphistoma striatum2 sites
- Sphaerexochus parvus2 sites
- Tetranota bidorsata2 sites
- Thaleops ovata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ecculiomphalus fredericus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Ecculiomphalus fredericus
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ecculiomphalus fredericus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itEcculiomphalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1902)