Eoptychia

No picture of Eoptychia 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 Eoptychia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudozygopleuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 306 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous366–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya312.8 Mya366 Mya305 Mya

7 occurrences of Eoptychia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

7 occurrences

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

5 formations

Black Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°EBojiwan — 26.90°N, 104.40°ECabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°W

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The named rock units Eoptychia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eoptychia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eoptychia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eoptychia, 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

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Eoptychia 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 Eoptychia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eoptychia 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 itPseudozygopleuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Longstaff 1933