Edriophus
No picture of Edriophus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Edriophus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EdrioasteridaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Edriophus 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Edriophus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Edriophus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Edriophus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Cleiocrinus3 sites
- Archaeocrinus2 sites
- Astrocystites2 sites
- Carabocrinus2 sites
- Cyathocystis2 sites
- Cyclocystoides2 sites
- Diabolocrinus2 sites
- Foerstediscus2 sites
- Hybocrinus2 sites
- Palaeocrinus2 sites
- Platycystites2 sites
- Pyrgocystis2 sites
- Amygdalocystites1 site
- Anomalocrinus1 site
- Apodasmocrinus1 site
- Bistomiacystis1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bromidocrinus1 site
- Bromidocrinus nodosus1 site
- Bromidocystis1 site
- Camerate sp.1 site
- Colpodecrinus1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Corynotrypa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Edriophus, 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
2 references- Echinoderm zones and faunas2
- Preservation and paleoecology of a Middle Ordovician hardground community1
Each of the 3 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 Edriophus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Edriophus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Edriophus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEdrioasterida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.