Eriphyla ovoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EriphylaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Eriphyla ovoides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Eriphyla ovoides 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.
Eriphyla ovoides and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eriphyla ovoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Callistalox arata3 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina3 sites
- Clisocolus corrugatus3 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii3 sites
- Lima (Acesta) beta3 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia3 sites
- Tenea inflata3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa2 sites
- Clisocolus cordatus2 sites
- Crassatella gamma2 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi2 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica2 sites
- Isocardia delta2 sites
- Lysis suciensis2 sites
- Opis (Hesperopis) popenoei2 sites
- Paraesa lens2 sites
- Trigonarca californica2 sites
- Trinacria cor2 sites
- Ammonitida1 site
- Ampullina pseudoalveata1 site
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana1 site
- Anomia lineata1 site
- Bullaria obtenta1 site
- Corbula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eriphyla ovoides, 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
4 references- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California3
- Water depth indications from Late Cretaceous mollusks, Santa Ana Mountains, California2
- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California1
- New species from the Cretaceous of the Santa Ana Mountains, California1
Each of the 7 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 Eriphyla ovoides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Eriphyla ovoides 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 itEriphyla through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Packard 1922)