Eucyclus elegans
No picture of Eucyclus elegans 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 Eucyclus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EucyclusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Eucyclus elegans on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
1 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Eucyclus elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eucyclus elegans and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Eucyclus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Actaeonina domeria1 site
- Actaeonina moorei1 site
- Actaeonina obliquata1 site
- Actaeonina rara1 site
- Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)1 site
- Cossmannina1 site
- Costasphaera franconica1 site
- Domerionina1 site
- Eucycloscala1 site
- Eucycloscala elegans1 site
- Falsoebala1 site
- Francocerithium kochi1 site
- Kalchreuthia1 site
- Kalchreuthia frankei1 site
- Levipleura1 site
- Levipleura blainvillei1 site
- Maturifusus grimmensis1 site
- Neodonaldina1 site
- Neodonaldina sinuata1 site
- Ovactaeonina abdominiformis1 site
- Ovactaeonina kalchreuthensis1 site
- Ovactaeonina sendelbachensis1 site
- Pleuroceras spinatum1 site
- Proacirsa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eucyclus elegans, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eucyclus elegans 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 Eucyclus elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eucyclus elegans was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEucyclus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brosamlen 1909)