Erettopterus globiceps
No picture of Erettopterus globiceps 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 Erettopterus globiceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErettopterusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida
Time the record covers
At most 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Erettopterus globiceps 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Erettopterus globiceps 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.
Erettopterus globiceps and its relatives
SilurianWhere Erettopterus globiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Hughmilleria4 sites
- Parahughmilleria4 sites
- Arthrophycus3 sites
- Hardieopterus3 sites
- Kiaeropterus3 sites
- Ctenopterus2 sites
- Nanahughmilleria2 sites
- Rhinocarcinosoma2 sites
- Ruedemannipterus2 sites
- Vernonaspis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Erettopterus globiceps, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 Erettopterus globiceps 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 Erettopterus globiceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erettopterus globiceps 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 itErettopterus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clarke and Ruedemann 1912