Eopteria richardsoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EopteriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya.
27 occurrences of Eopteria richardsoni 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
27 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
9 formations
- Smithville Formation11
- Cotter Formation4
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group3
- Jefferson City Formation3
- Honeycut Formation · Ellenburger Group2
- Telsitna Formation1
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The named rock units Eopteria richardsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eopteria richardsoni and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eopteria richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Lophonema10 sites
- Ceratopea unguis9 sites
- Lophonema circumlirata9 sites
- Lophospira perangulata9 sites
- Cephalopoda8 sites
- Lophonema taneyensis8 sites
- Eoleperditia6 sites
- Hormotoma6 sites
- Hormotoma artemesia6 sites
- Straparollina cassina6 sites
- Turritoma acrea6 sites
- Fusispira obesus5 sites
- Hormotoma confusa5 sites
- Teiichispira ponderosa5 sites
- Ceratopea4 sites
- Ceratopea depressa4 sites
- Ceratopea hami4 sites
- Clathrospira virguncula4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Hormotoma anna4 sites
- Lophospira4 sites
- Teiichispira odenvillensis4 sites
- Acidiphorus3 sites
- Ceratoleperditia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Eopteria richardsoni, 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
5 references- The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca13
- The Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Smithville and Blackrock Formations of Southeastern Missouri10
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)2
- First occurrence of Helicotoma Salter (Gastropoda) from the Ordovician of Alaska1
- Palaeozoic fossils, volume 11
Each of the 27 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 Eopteria richardsoni 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 Eopteria richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eopteria richardsoni 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 itEopteria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1865