Epithyris

Epithyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PostepithyrididaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 22 of 23 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 12 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170.9 Mya – 165.3 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

23 occurrences of Epithyris on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

23 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

6 formations

White Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WWhite Limestone — 51.00°N, 1.00°WForest Marble — 51.00°N, 1.00°WForest Marble — 51.34°N, 2.25°WTataouine — 32.90°N, 10.45°ETataouine — 32.73°N, 10.48°EGreat Oolite — 51.88°N, 1.27°WGreat Oolite — 51.80°N, 1.93°WCalcaire de Caen — 48.82°N, 0.01°EAshton Limestone — 51.87°N, 2.08°W

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The named rock units Epithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epithyris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Epithyris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Epithyris, 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

9 references

Each of the 23 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 Epithyris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Epithyris 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 itPostepithyrididae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1841)