Eudesia

Eudesia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 42 of 42 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 42 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence168.2 Mya165.3 Mya175.2 Mya161 Mya

42 occurrences of Eudesia on record, most of them in the Middle 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

42 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

7 formations

Hamam — 32.10°N, 35.63°EHamam — 32.20°N, 35.70°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°EDhahab — 32.12°N, 35.62°EMughanniyya — 32.18°N, 35.77°EMughanniyya — 32.10°N, 35.63°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.70°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.04°N, 45.89°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°EHuni Dolomite — 32.23°N, 35.77°EStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Eudesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eudesia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Eudesia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Eudesia, 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

11 references

Each of the 42 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 Eudesia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itEudesiidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1850