Eosyringothyris

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpinocyrtiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Eosyringothyris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
15 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
7 formations
- Little Cedar Formation · Cedar Valley Group5
- Lithograph City Formation · Cedar Valley Group4
- Cedar Valley Limestone Formation2
- Coralville Formation · Cedar Valley Group1
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Cedar Valley Formation1
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The named rock units Eosyringothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eosyringothyris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Eosyringothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Athyris6 sites
- Cranaena5 sites
- Desquamatia (Independatrypa)4 sites
- Schizophoria lata4 sites
- Strophodonta (Strophodonta)4 sites
- Allanella3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Pentamerella3 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)3 sites
- Tecnocyrtina3 sites
- Elita2 sites
- Meristella2 sites
- Orthospirifer2 sites
- Pholidostrophia2 sites
- Productella2 sites
- Pseudoatrypa2 sites
- Pseudoatrypa devoniana2 sites
- Rhipidomella2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Spinocyrtia2 sites
- Tylothyris2 sites
- <encrusting trepostome>1 site
- <ramose trepostome>1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eosyringothyris, 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
4 references- Faunal signatures of Middle-Upper Devonian depositional sequences and sea level fluctuations in the Iowa Basin: US Midcontinent9
- The brachiopod succession of the Late Givetian-Frasnian of Iowa4
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis1
- Middle Devonian brachiopods of southeastern Wisconsin1
Each of the 15 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 Eosyringothyris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eosyringothyris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpinocyrtiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.