Eucalathis

Eucalathis is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Chlidonophoridae.

Eucalathis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucalathinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–6.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.6–3.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.8–960 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya3.6 Mya85 Mya960 ka

6 occurrences of Eucalathis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 formations

Sant'Agata Fossili — 45.06°N, 7.94°EOmagari — 44.79°N, 142.06°ECastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WArgille Azzurre — 45.06°N, 8.02°E

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The named rock units Eucalathis 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.

Eucalathis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eucalathis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eucalathis, 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

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 content2

Picture of Eucalathis

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Eucalathis ergastica · usnm:paleobiology:mo551331

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itEucalathinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer and Oehlert 1890