Epitomyonia amplissima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpitomyoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Epitomyonia amplissima on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
9 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Epitomyonia amplissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epitomyonia amplissima and its relatives
SilurianWhere Epitomyonia amplissima and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Morinorhynchus crispus7 sites
- Skenidioides operosa7 sites
- Dicoelosia6 sites
- Flabellitesia kessei6 sites
- Hedeina6 sites
- Liljevallia amorpha6 sites
- Pentlandina harperi6 sites
- Rhynchotreta americaniformis6 sites
- Spirigerina copperi6 sites
- Spirinella struszi6 sites
- Amsdenina5 sites
- Ancillotoechia5 sites
- Caryogyps chattertoni5 sites
- Chonetoidea5 sites
- Cliftonia5 sites
- Clorinda5 sites
- Cyrtia alatiformis5 sites
- Dalejina5 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Ygerodiscus)5 sites
- Eospinatrypa5 sites
- Gracianella5 sites
- Isorthis5 sites
- Janius occidentalis5 sites
- Jonesea grayi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Epitomyonia amplissima, 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
3 references- Wenlockian (Silurian) brachiopods of the Cape Phillips Formation, Baillie Hamilton Island, Arctic Canada: part I5
- Latest Ordovician-Silurian articulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Avalanche Lake area, southwestern District of Mackenzie, Canada3
- Epitomyonia (Brachiopoda): Ecology and Functional Morphology1
Each of the 9 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 Epitomyonia amplissima 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 Epitomyonia amplissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitomyonia amplissima 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 itEpitomyonia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1989