Erettopterus marstoni
No picture of Erettopterus marstoni 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 marstoni, 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 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 425 Mya and 422.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Erettopterus marstoni 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Erettopterus marstoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Erettopterus marstoni and its relatives
SilurianWhere Erettopterus marstoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Annelida1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Carcinosoma1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Chonetoidea1 site
- Conulariida1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Dayia1 site
- Delthyris1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Graptolithina1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Lingulata1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Phyllocarida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Erettopterus marstoni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 marstoni 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 marstoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erettopterus marstoni 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. Kjellesvig-Waering 1961