Ectomaria prisca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EctomariaPBDB
- 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 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 456.6 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
28 occurrences of Ectomaria prisca 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
28 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
15 formations
- Glenwood Formation4
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group4
- Kangaroo Creek Formation4
- St. Peter Sandstone Formation2
- Pecatonica Formation2
- Mifflin Formation2
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The named rock units Ectomaria prisca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ectomaria prisca and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ectomaria prisca and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
252 taxa- Lophospira perangulata14 sites
- Clathrospira subconica13 sites
- Ambonychiopsis12 sites
- Cyrtodonta12 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis12 sites
- Liospira angustata12 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata12 sites
- Bucania sublata10 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis angustatus10 sites
- Cleionychia9 sites
- Cymatonota9 sites
- Cyrtodontula9 sites
- Eunema centralis9 sites
- Gyronema semicarinatum9 sites
- Paraliospira abrupta9 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata9 sites
- Sphenolium9 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta9 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata9 sites
- Vanuxemia9 sites
- Alaskadiscus subacutus8 sites
- Ctenodonta8 sites
- Fusispira spicula8 sites
- Gyronema pulchellum8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Ectomaria prisca, 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
8 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota17
- Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California4
- Remarks on the genera Ectomaria, Koken, and Hormotoma, Salter, with descriptions of British species2
- A major unconformity between Upper Ordovician and Lower Devonian strata in the Nanook Limestone, Shublik Mountains, northeastern Brooks Range1
- Upper Ordovician Gastropoda from west-central Alaska1
- Stratigrafiya i fauna ordovika i silura Chukotskogo poluostrova [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Ordovician and the Silurian of the Chukotsk Peninsula]1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota1
Each of the 28 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
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No picture of Ectomaria prisca 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 Ectomaria prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ectomaria prisca was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEctomaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)