Ekwanoscutellum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StyginidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 429.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya429.6 Mya439.1 Mya426.2 Mya

11 occurrences of Ekwanoscutellum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

11 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

4 formations

Attawapiskat — 52.90°N, 83.95°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.64°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.52°WAttawapiskat — 52.93°N, 83.39°WAttawapiskat — 52.96°N, 83.16°WAttawapiskat — 53.46°N, 82.93°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.84°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.51°WGascons — 47.91°N, 66.52°W

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The named rock units Ekwanoscutellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ekwanoscutellum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ekwanoscutellum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ekwanoscutellum, 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 11 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 Ekwanoscutellum 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 Ekwanoscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ekwanoscutellum 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 itStyginidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl and Vanek 1972