Ecphora quadricostata

Ecphora quadricostata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EcphoraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 13 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.0–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences13.82 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

34 occurrences of Ecphora quadricostata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

34 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

Yorktown — 37.22°N, 76.93°WYorktown — 37.17°N, 76.77°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WChoptank — 38.46°N, 76.47°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.77°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.43°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSt Marys — 38.36°N, 76.39°WMurdock Station — 25.90°N, 81.30°WSt. Mary — 38.35°N, 76.38°W

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

Ecphora quadricostata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ecphora quadricostata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

524 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Ecphora quadricostata, 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

12 references

Each of the 34 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 content2

Picture of Ecphora quadricostata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1830)