Eridophyllum seriale

Eridophyllum seriale

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EridophyllumPBDB
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 385.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 6 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443.1 Mya387.95 Mya451 Mya385 Mya

6 occurrences of Eridophyllum seriale 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

6 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

5 formations

Jeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°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 seriale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eridophyllum seriale and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eridophyllum seriale and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Eridophyllum seriale, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 Eridophyllum seriale

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

No 3D scan of Eridophyllum seriale 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 itEridophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

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