Eofletcheria incerta
No picture of Eofletcheria incerta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Eofletcheria incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EofletcheriaPBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eofletcheria incerta 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
3 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
3 formations
- Mingan Formation1
- Valcour Formation1
- Aylmer Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Eofletcheria incerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eofletcheria incerta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eofletcheria incerta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Anthaspidellidae1 site
- Bathyurus1 site
- Bathyurus angelini1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Billingsaria1 site
- Bolboporites americanus1 site
- Ctenodonta parvidens1 site
- Cyrtodonta breviuscula1 site
- Ectenoglossa lyelli1 site
- Ectenoglossa mantelli1 site
- Isochilina1 site
- Isoteloides canalis1 site
- Labechia1 site
- Lichenaria1 site
- Lingulella huronensis1 site
- Modiolopsis parviuscula1 site
- Nicholsonella1 site
- Oriostoma pauper1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Palaeocystites1 site
- Palaeoglossa belli1 site
- Parachaetetes1 site
- Phylloporina1 site
- Protichnites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eofletcheria incerta, 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
3 references- Middle Ordovician (Chazyan) bioherms and biostromes of the Mingan Islands, Quebec1
- Evolution of Chazyan (Ordovician) reefs of eastern United States and Canada1
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Eofletcheria incerta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Eofletcheria incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eofletcheria incerta 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 itEofletcheria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)