Ectochoristites inflatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EctochoristitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 351.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ectochoristites inflatus 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ectochoristites inflatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ectochoristites inflatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ectochoristites inflatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Amesopleura texana2 sites
- Athyris bradyensis2 sites
- Avonia honeycreekensis2 sites
- Beecheria chouteauensis2 sites
- Brachythyris chouteauensis2 sites
- Coledium undulatum2 sites
- Cranaena texana2 sites
- Crassumbo inornatus2 sites
- Crurithyris parva2 sites
- Cyphotalosia masonensis2 sites
- Eomartiniopsis girtyi2 sites
- Fusella llanoensis2 sites
- Hamburgia chappelensis2 sites
- Merista maccullochensis2 sites
- Plicochonetes ornatus2 sites
- Productina sampsoni2 sites
- Reticularia cooperensis2 sites
- Rhynchopora sansabensis2 sites
- Rhytiophora calhounensis2 sites
- Rotaia2 sites
- Rugosochonetes burlingtonensis2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Tylothyris brevaurita2 sites
- Acanthoplecta inopinata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ectochoristites inflatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ectochoristites inflatus 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 Ectochoristites inflatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ectochoristites inflatus 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 itEctochoristites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carter 1967