Eophysema ozarkana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EophysemaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
25 occurrences of Eophysema ozarkana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
25 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
9 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group5
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group2
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Eophysema ozarkana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eophysema ozarkana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eophysema ozarkana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
556 taxa- Turritella12 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta10 sites
- Cadulus8 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella7 sites
- Buccitriton texanum7 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta7 sites
- Ficus7 sites
- Pitar7 sites
- Polinices7 sites
- Tellina7 sites
- Turritella nasuta7 sites
- Ancilla staminea6 sites
- Athleta petrosa6 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni6 sites
- Venericardia6 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) densata6 sites
- Athleta5 sites
- Atrina5 sites
- Calorhadia bella5 sites
- Calyptraphorus5 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus5 sites
- Fusimitra5 sites
- Levifusus5 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Eophysema ozarkana, 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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda6
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region5
- Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages4
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs3
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
Each of the 25 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 Eophysema ozarkana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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What may have been alongside itEophysema through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.