Ectomaria

Ectomaria

Schmidt, Fr. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
LophospiridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 212 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 68 occurrencesOrdovician — about 65 of 68 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 68 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 68 occurrencesPermian491–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–476 Mya — about 7 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 5 occurrences468–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–452 Mya — about 28 occurrences452–444 Mya — about 21 occurrences444–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–326 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences326–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences477.1 Mya264.28 Mya491 Mya255 Mya

68 occurrences of Ectomaria on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

68 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

36 formations

Kangaroo Creek — 41.39°N, 122.69°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.32°N, 89.88°WSmithville — 37.29°N, 89.83°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.40°N, 89.91°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPort Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WÄrina — 59.19°N, 26.19°EÄrina — 59.08°N, 25.13°EStinchar — 55.18°N, 4.79°WCroisaphuill — 58.62°N, 4.87°WCroisaphuill — 58.52°N, 4.80°WRaisin River — 42.33°N, 83.05°WDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EMurfreesboro Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WTelsitna — 62.53°N, 154.84°WKangyao — 41.36°N, 123.54°ECatoche — 48.47°N, 59.23°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WChegitun — 66.57°N, 171.08°E

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The named rock units Ectomaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ectomaria and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ectomaria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

603 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Ectomaria, 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

28 references

Each of the 68 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Ectomaria

Source
GBIF
Credit
Schmidt, Fr.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ectomaria 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 itLophospiridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1896)