Entolium

Searched as Entolium discites microtis. The Paleobiology Database treats Entolium as the accepted name.

Entolium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntoliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Entoliidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 12 of 13 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.902 Mya248.6 Mya254.6 Mya246.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Entolium on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

13 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

7 formations

Werfen — 46.35°N, 11.87°EWerfen — 46.30°N, 11.57°EWerfen — 46.37°N, 11.59°EYingshuiquan — 33.60°N, 86.80°EXiahuancang — 37.42°N, 99.30°EBeisi — 23.50°N, 107.55°ETan Lac — 21.50°N, 104.00°EHuangzhishan — 30.92°N, 119.99°EDaye — 30.49°N, 107.00°E

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

Entolium and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Entolium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,175 sites for Entolium, and this reads 240 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

Each of the 13 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 content2

Picture of Entolium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itEntoliidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1865)