Eligmus weiri

Eligmus weiri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EligmusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 17 of 20 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya165.3 Mya171.4 Mya154.3 Mya

20 occurrences of Eligmus weiri on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

20 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

5 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EBihen Limestone — 10.08°N, 45.32°EBihen Limestone — 10.23°N, 45.47°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.97°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°ESafa — 30.70°N, 33.49°E

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

Eligmus weiri and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Eligmus weiri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Eligmus weiri, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Eligmus weiri

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Eligmus weiri 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 itEligmus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1935