Echinocaris socialis

Echinocaris socialis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinocarisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 6.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 1 occurrence365–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365.7 Mya358.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Echinocaris socialis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

1 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

1 formation

Baggy Sandstones — 51.12°N, 4.00°W

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The named rock units Echinocaris socialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Echinocaris socialis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Echinocaris socialis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Echinocaris socialis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Echinocaris socialis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Echinocaris socialis 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 itEchinocaris through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beecher 1884