Eridophyllum

Eridophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EridophyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 47 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 47 occurrencesDevonian — about 46 of 47 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 5 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 5 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 14 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 13 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 5 occurrences443.1 Mya387.95 Mya451 Mya381 Mya

47 occurrences of Eridophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

47 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

11 formations

Ludlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WStooping River — 51.00°N, 81.50°WBou Dib — 31.19°N, 4.93°WQueenston — 45.88°N, 81.22°WAnderdon Limestone — 43.04°N, 80.86°W

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The named rock units Eridophyllum 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.

Eridophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eridophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

373 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Eridophyllum, 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

16 references

Each of the 47 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Eridophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEridophyllinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850