Eriptychius americanus

Eriptychius americanus

Welles, S.P. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EriptychiusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.7 Mya445 Mya

3 occurrences of Eriptychius americanus 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

3 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

3 formations

Harding — 38.00°N, 105.00°WHarding Sandstone — 38.47°N, 105.27°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.44°N, 106.92°W

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The named rock units Eriptychius americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eriptychius americanus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eriptychius americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eriptychius americanus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Eriptychius americanus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Welles, S.P.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eriptychius sp. · FMNH:PF:1795

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

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What may have been alongside itEriptychius through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1892