Eotaphrus

No picture of Eotaphrus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eotaphrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BactrognathidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359.4 Mya346.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Eotaphrus 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

3 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

1 formation

Konstantin-El — 65.66°N, 59.73°E

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The named rock units Eotaphrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eotaphrus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eotaphrus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eotaphrus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

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

Media and terms

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No picture of Eotaphrus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eotaphrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eotaphrus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itBactrognathidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.