Eccyliopterus ottawaensis
No picture of Eccyliopterus ottawaensis 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 Eccyliopterus ottawaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EccyliopterusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eccyliopterus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eccyliopterus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Eccyliopterus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eccyliopterus ottawaensis 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
3 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
2 formations
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group2
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
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The named rock units Eccyliopterus ottawaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eccyliopterus ottawaensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eccyliopterus ottawaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Ambonychia3 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra3 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) ingalli3 sites
- Bumastus3 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus3 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri3 sites
- Gabriceraurus dentatus3 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis3 sites
- Omospira trentonensis3 sites
- Opikina platys3 sites
- Opikina rugosa3 sites
- Paucicrura rogata3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata alata3 sites
- Rhynchotrema increbescens3 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus3 sites
- Skenidioides3 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea3 sites
- Sowerbyella curdsvillensis3 sites
- Strophomena dignata3 sites
- Alaskadiscus disculus2 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger2 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Ctenodonta nasuta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eccyliopterus ottawaensis, 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- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
Each of the 3 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 Eccyliopterus ottawaensis 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 Eccyliopterus ottawaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eccyliopterus ottawaensis 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 itEccyliopterus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1860)