Eocamptonectes

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EocamptonectiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
42 occurrences of Eocamptonectes 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
42 occurrences- Carboniferous1%
- Permian99%
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 Formation18
- Cathedral Mountain Formation7
- Word Formation5
- Cherry Canyon Formation3
- Capitan Formation3
- Hess Formation1
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The named rock units Eocamptonectes 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.
Eocamptonectes and its relatives
PermianWhere Eocamptonectes and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,011 taxa- Meekella calathica24 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys23 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus22 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus22 sites
- Megousia auriculata21 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa21 sites
- Cyrtorostra varicostata20 sites
- Derbyia laqueata20 sites
- Annuliconcha dentata19 sites
- Echinauris irregularis19 sites
- Prospondylus acinetus18 sites
- Composita16 sites
- Derbyia16 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata16 sites
- Derbyia informis16 sites
- Hustedia16 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata16 sites
- Schematochiton arthurcooperi16 sites
- Texarina wordensis16 sites
- Dielasma15 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata14 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata14 sites
- Pernopecten yini14 sites
- Streblopteria montpelierensis14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Eocamptonectes, 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
7 references- Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis32
- The Guadalupian fauna4
- Late Paleozoic pelecypods: Pectinacea2
- Geología de las áreas Ovalle y Peña Blanca, Región de Coquimbo Nos. 208-2091
- Pozdnepermskie dvustvorchatye mollyuski Primor'ya1
- Yao et al., 19801
- Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies1
Each of the 42 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 Eocamptonectes
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eocamptonectes 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 itEocamptonectini through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1969