Eofletcheria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LyoporinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
52 occurrences of Eofletcheria on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
52 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
26 formations
- Fossil Hill Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Group6
- Mingan Formation4
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group4
- Benjamin Limestone Formation · Gordon Group3
- Mjøsa Limestone Formation3
- Sanjushan Formation3
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The named rock units Eofletcheria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eofletcheria and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eofletcheria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
329 taxa- Coccoseris10 sites
- Tetradium10 sites
- Hillophyllum9 sites
- Nyctopora9 sites
- Bajgolia8 sites
- Billingsaria8 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Propora8 sites
- Catenipora7 sites
- Labechia7 sites
- Maclurites7 sites
- Stictopora7 sites
- Heliolites6 sites
- Palaeophyllum6 sites
- Plasmoporella6 sites
- Aulopora5 sites
- Calapoecia5 sites
- Ecclimadictyon5 sites
- Gorbyoceras5 sites
- Leptellina5 sites
- Lyopora5 sites
- Pliomerina5 sites
- Remopleurides5 sites
- Acidolites4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Eofletcheria, 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
31 references- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway 2. Some Rugose and Tabulate Corals.5
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai4
- The reengineering of reef habitats during the great Ordovician biodiversification event3
- Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia3
- Middle Ordovician reefs of Norway3
- The geology of the Licking Hole Creek area, near Walli, central western New South Wales3
- Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications2
- Clathrodictyid stromatoporoids from the Ordovician of China2
- Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania2
- Biostratigraficheskoye raschleneniye verkhnego ordovika Altaya i Gornoy Shorii po tabulyatam i geliolitidam [Upper Ordovician biostratigraphy of the Altai and Shoriya mountains based on tabulate and heliolitid corals]2
- The Incommunicate Tabulata of Estonia2
- Ordovician Chazy Group in southern Quebec2
Each of the 52 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. 19 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
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No picture of Eofletcheria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eofletcheria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1950