Eumorphotis

No picture of Eumorphotis 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 Eumorphotis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AviculopectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 48 of 609 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 524 of 609 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 29 of 609 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 8 of 609 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 609 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 26 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 260 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 104 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 182 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 5 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 8 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 6 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 5 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 4 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–231 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254.14 Mya205.7 Mya261 Mya200 Mya

609 occurrences of Eumorphotis on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

609 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

77 formations

Werfen — 46.30°N, 11.80°EWerfen — 46.40°N, 11.80°EWerfen — 46.35°N, 11.87°EWerfen — 46.29°N, 11.52°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWerfen — 46.66°N, 11.83°EWerfen — 46.34°N, 11.68°EWerfen — 46.30°N, 11.57°EWerfen — 46.37°N, 11.59°EWerfen — 46.36°N, 11.44°EWerfen — 46.49°N, 11.70°EWerfen — 46.58°N, 11.72°EWerfen — 46.46°N, 11.77°EWerfen — 46.42°N, 11.69°EWerfen — 46.33°N, 12.00°EDaye — 30.30°N, 106.85°EDaye — 30.49°N, 107.00°EDaye — 29.71°N, 113.93°EDaye — 26.67°N, 106.23°EDaye — 25.59°N, 106.65°EDaye — 25.58°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.57°N, 106.66°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.67°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EMoenkopi — 37.05°N, 113.75°WMoenkopi — 37.17°N, 113.29°WMoenkopi — 37.00°N, 113.00°WMoenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WMoenkopi — 40.57°N, 110.49°WMoenkopi — 38.24°N, 112.22°WMoenkopi — 38.21°N, 111.28°WMoenkopi — 37.10°N, 113.71°WMoenkopi — 37.18°N, 113.22°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WMoenkopi — 37.05°N, 113.27°WMoenkopi — 37.10°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 37.27°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.23°WMoenkopi — 35.98°N, 115.44°WFeixianguan — 28.10°N, 105.04°EFeixianguan — 29.91°N, 106.52°EFeixianguan — 32.08°N, 105.09°EFeixianguan — 28.96°N, 106.92°EFeixianguan — 27.46°N, 107.14°EFeixianguan — 29.49°N, 106.40°EFeixianguan — 30.13°N, 106.45°EFeixianguan — 28.01°N, 104.68°EFeixianguan — 26.02°N, 104.67°EDinwoody — 44.76°N, 112.30°WDinwoody — 44.68°N, 112.79°WDinwoody — 43.57°N, 110.73°WDinwoody — 45.27°N, 112.79°WDinwoody — 45.65°N, 112.82°WDinwoody — 42.70°N, 111.24°WDinwoody — 42.91°N, 111.70°WDinwoody — 42.32°N, 111.25°WDinwoody — 44.56°N, 112.71°WDinwoody — 42.11°N, 111.25°WDinwoody — 42.23°N, 111.43°WDinwoody — 41.46°N, 113.47°WVirgin — 37.05°N, 113.68°WVirgin — 37.11°N, 113.25°WVirgin — 37.04°N, 113.28°WVirgin — 37.02°N, 113.65°WBellerophon — 46.56°N, 11.73°EBellerophon — 46.34°N, 11.23°EBellerophon — 46.64°N, 11.84°EBellerophon — 46.54°N, 11.77°EBellerophon — 46.67°N, 11.90°EThaynes — 40.77°N, 111.83°WThaynes — 44.68°N, 112.79°WThaynes — 42.69°N, 110.89°WThaynes — 43.41°N, 111.54°WThaynes — 40.49°N, 111.52°WThaynes — 45.23°N, 116.32°WThaynes — 40.46°N, 111.55°WThaynes — 40.37°N, 114.83°WThaynes — 43.41°N, 111.43°WThaynes — 41.09°N, 111.53°WThaynes — 40.75°N, 111.23°WThaynes — 39.41°N, 113.69°WXiahuancang — 37.42°N, 99.30°EKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°EYelang — 26.14°N, 105.28°EYelang — 29.49°N, 106.40°EBódvaszilas Sandstone — 48.48°N, 20.68°EWerfen — 43.70°N, 16.47°EWerfen — 44.20°N, 16.07°EWerfen — 44.11°N, 16.23°EGerennavar — 48.10°N, 20.47°EJianghe — 37.42°N, 99.30°EJianghe — 37.49°N, 99.38°EKapp Toscana — 74.42°N, 19.16°EDajialian — 37.49°N, 99.38°ESzin Marl — 48.47°N, 20.68°ESzin Marl — 48.48°N, 20.61°ELuolou — 24.43°N, 107.37°ELuolou — 24.36°N, 107.33°ELuolou — 24.96°N, 106.65°ELuolou — 24.81°N, 106.55°ESchmidt — 43.03°N, 131.93°ESchmidt — 42.92°N, 131.90°EWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.04°N, 21.61°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WChangxing — 29.91°N, 106.52°ETartalinskaya — 44.36°N, 51.40°ETartalinskaya — 44.40°N, 50.80°EVardebukta — 77.55°N, 15.02°EVardebukta — 78.54°N, 15.27°E

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The named rock units Eumorphotis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eumorphotis and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Eumorphotis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

594 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 453 sites for Eumorphotis, and this reads 240 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

104 references

Each of the 609 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. 92 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Eumorphotis 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 Eumorphotis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itAviculopectinidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1901)