Eirlysia reticulata

No picture of Eirlysia reticulata 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 Eirlysia reticulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EirlysiaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence271–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318.6 Mya266.9 Mya325 Mya263 Mya

14 occurrences of Eirlysia reticulata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

14 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

10 formations

Road Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EWord — 30.40°N, 103.17°WPhosphoria — 42.57°N, 108.41°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.92°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCutoff — 31.99°N, 104.92°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.33°W

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

Eirlysia reticulata and its relatives

Permian

Where Eirlysia reticulata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

668 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Eirlysia reticulata, 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

4 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Eirlysia reticulata 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 Eirlysia reticulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eirlysia reticulata 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 itEirlysia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Batten 1958