Echinoconchus biseriatus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchinoconchusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
15 occurrences of Echinoconchus biseriatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
15 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
- Mount Head Formation · Rundle Group10
- Salem Limestone Formation1
- Diamond Peak Formation1
- Paradise Formation1
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The named rock units Echinoconchus biseriatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Echinoconchus biseriatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Echinoconchus biseriatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
243 taxa- Spirifer9 sites
- Composita5 sites
- Eumetria5 sites
- Girtyella5 sites
- Spirifer pellaensis5 sites
- Composita trinuclea4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Fenestrata4 sites
- Griffithides4 sites
- Camarotoechia3 sites
- Cystodictya3 sites
- Dielasma3 sites
- Evactinopora3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Hapsiphyllum3 sites
- Paraparchites3 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis2 sites
- Archaeocidaris2 sites
- Avonia2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Cleiothyridina hirsuta2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cypricardella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Echinoconchus biseriatus, 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
7 references- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta5
- Stratigraphy and facies relationships of the upper Mississippian Mount Head Formation, Rocky Mountains and foothills, southwestern Alberta4
- The Paradise Formation and its fauna2
- Facies Faunas of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky1
- Mississippian stratigraphy of the Diamond Peak Area, Eureka County, Nevada1
- Mississippian succession in Mount Head area, Alberta1
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska1
Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Echinoconchus biseriatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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What may have been alongside itEchinoconchus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1856)