Echinosteges

No picture of Echinosteges 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 Echinosteges, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinosteginaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 83 occurrencesPermian — about 83 of 83 occurrencesPermian300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 6 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 10 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 10 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 10 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 10 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 14 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 13 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293.52 Mya259.857 Mya299.8 Mya253.2 Mya

83 occurrences of Echinosteges on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

83 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

8 formations

Word — 30.39°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.29°WWord — 30.41°N, 103.14°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WBell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.75°WBell Canyon — 31.94°N, 104.70°WBell Canyon — 31.82°N, 104.77°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.65°N, 105.04°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.36°WCapitan — 32.00°N, 104.78°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.83°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WKarita — 34.61°N, 132.63°EPaso Hondo — 15.65°N, 92.04°W

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The named rock units Echinosteges 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.

Echinosteges and its relatives

Permian

Where Echinosteges and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

884 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Echinosteges, 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

6 references

Each of the 83 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 Echinosteges 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 Echinosteges, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Echinosteges 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 itEchinosteginae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960