Eridotrypa mutabilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EridotrypaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
71 occurrences of Eridotrypa mutabilis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
71 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
10 formations
- Denley Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group48
- Hermitage Formation5
- Sugar River Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group3
- Lexington Limestone Formation3
- Catheys Formation1
- Cummingsville Formation · Galena Group1
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The named rock units Eridotrypa mutabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eridotrypa mutabilis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eridotrypa mutabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Paucicrura rogata49 sites
- Prasopora48 sites
- Stictopora34 sites
- Platystrophia32 sites
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria28 sites
- Sowerbyella kayi28 sites
- Merocrinus27 sites
- Isotelus gigas25 sites
- Cupulocrinus23 sites
- Homocystites20 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra19 sites
- Amplexopora17 sites
- Ectenocrinus16 sites
- Iocrinus subcrassus14 sites
- Heterotrypa13 sites
- Rafinesquina deltoidea13 sites
- Cincinnaticrinus12 sites
- Homotrypa11 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata10 sites
- Balticopora9 sites
- Hallopora9 sites
- Prismostylus fibratum9 sites
- Tarphophragma9 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Eridotrypa mutabilis, 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
8 references- R. Titus unpublished collections43
- Bryozoa from Rocklandian (Middle Ordovician) rocks of the Upper Mississippi Valley region10
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia6
- Systematic paleontology, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology of Middle Ordovician Bryozoa (Trepostomata) from the Hermitage Formation of east-central Tennessee4
- Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (Middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State4
- Fossil Communities of the Middle Trenton Group (Ordovician) of New York State2
- Trepostome and Cystoporate Bryozoans from the Lexington Limestone and the Clays Ferry Formation (Middle and Upper Ordovician) of Kentucky1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
Each of the 71 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
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No picture of Eridotrypa mutabilis 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 Eridotrypa mutabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eridotrypa mutabilis 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 itEridotrypa through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893