Eocanites
No picture of Eocanites 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 Eocanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProlecanitinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
20 occurrences of Eocanites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Eocanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eocanites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Eocanites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Acutimitoceras6 sites
- Gattendorfia5 sites
- Acutimitoceras acutum4 sites
- Acutimitoceras intermedium4 sites
- Acutimitoceras subbilobatum4 sites
- Imitoceras4 sites
- Mimimitoceras varicosum4 sites
- Siphonodella4 sites
- Acutimitoceras mfisense3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Gattendorfia (Gattendorfia) costata3 sites
- Gattendorfia crassa3 sites
- Kazakhstania evoluta3 sites
- Liobolina submonstrans3 sites
- Neopolygnathus communis3 sites
- Polygnathus3 sites
- Semiproetus (Macrobole) drewerensis3 sites
- Acutimitoceras (Stockumites) kleinerae2 sites
- Acutimitoceras hollardi2 sites
- Acutimitoceras occidentale2 sites
- Cyrtoproetus (Sinocyrtoproetus) blax2 sites
- Entomozoidae2 sites
- Gattendorfia jacquelinae2 sites
- Goniocyclus ammari2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Eocanites, 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- The ammonoid faunal change near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary7
- A new ammonoid fauna from the Gattendorfia-Eocanites Genozone of the Anti-Atlas (Early Carboniferous; Morocco)4
- The Devonian/Carboniferous Boundary in the Carnic Alps (Austria) - A Multidisciplinary Approach4
- Palaeogeographical meaning of a Middle Tournaisian ammonoid fauna from Morocco2
- Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from Sierra de Almeida, northern Chile1
- The earliest Goniatitina (Ammonoidea) from the south Urals1
- Ammonoideen aus dem Untertournai von Schleiz (Ostthüringisches Schiefergebirge) [Lower Tournaisian ammonoids from Schleiz (Thuringia)]1
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 content0
No picture of Eocanites 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 Eocanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eocanites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProlecanitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Librovitch 1957