Epicelia episcopiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpiceliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Epicelia episcopiensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
- Episkopi Formation · Barmari Group3
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The named rock units Epicelia episcopiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epicelia episcopiensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Epicelia episcopiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Ceocypea dischides2 sites
- Falafer epidelus2 sites
- Schuchertella bassa2 sites
- Sicelia explicata2 sites
- Thaumatomma piscifrons2 sites
- Tropidelasma ptomatis2 sites
- Acanthocladia1 site
- Ananias1 site
- Anomphalus1 site
- Apachella1 site
- Bellerophontida1 site
- Crenispirifer alpheus1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyndalia rudistiformis1 site
- Cypridinelliforma rex1 site
- Cyrtinidae1 site
- Derbyia regis1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Diplanus1 site
- Diplanus dilatus1 site
- Disphenia myiodes1 site
- Enteletes tschernyschewi1 site
- Eocypridina radiata1 site
- Falafer triminulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Epicelia episcopiensis, 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
2 references- The lophophore and feeding mechanism of the Productidina (Brachiopoda)2
- Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian)1
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. 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
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No picture of Epicelia episcopiensis 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 Epicelia episcopiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epicelia episcopiensis 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 itEpicelia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grant 1972