Eocoelia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptocoeliidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 7.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
126 occurrences of Eocoelia 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
126 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
38 formations
- Ross Brook Formation36
- Ross Point Formation23
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group9
- Rose Hill Formation · Clinton Group7
- Willowvale Formation · Clinton Group4
- Weir Formation · Chaleurs Group3
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The named rock units Eocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eocoelia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Eocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
639 taxa- Tentaculites47 sites
- Lingula35 sites
- Camarotoechia31 sites
- Crinoidea28 sites
- Atrypa reticularis27 sites
- Protochonetes22 sites
- Salopina conservatrix22 sites
- Visbyella20 sites
- Calymene19 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis17 sites
- Plagiorhyncha17 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus16 sites
- Dalmanites15 sites
- Leptostrophia15 sites
- Chonetes14 sites
- Atrypa13 sites
- Nuculites13 sites
- Mastigobolbina12 sites
- Dalejina11 sites
- Dolerorthis11 sites
- Resserella11 sites
- Bivalvia10 sites
- Ctenodonta10 sites
- Monograptus10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Eocoelia, 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
36 references- The relationship between sedimentary facies and faunal associations in the Llandovery siliclastic Ross Brook Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia59
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York8
- Silurian System of West Virginia7
- Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Llandoverian rocks of the Gaspé Peninsula4
- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)3
- Atrypoid brachiopods and their distribution in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Anticosti Island3
- Silurian of Paraguay3
- Llandovery (Early Silurian) orthide brachiopod associations from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada2
- The Early Silurian brachiopod Eocoelia from the Hudson Bay Basin, Canada2
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)2
- The deep-water brachiopod Dicoelosia King, 1850, from the early Silurian tropical carbonate shelf of Anticosti Island, eastern Canada2
- Bathymetry and paleoecology of Silurian benthic assemblages, late Llandoverian, New York State2
Each of the 126 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 Eocoelia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eocoelia 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 itLeptocoeliidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikiforova 1961