Eumorphotis huancangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EumorphotisPBDB
- 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 most 1.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eumorphotis huancangensis 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
3 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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 Eumorphotis huancangensis 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.
Eumorphotis huancangensis and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Eumorphotis huancangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Bakevellia2 sites
- Leptochondria2 sites
- Leptochondria minima2 sites
- Neritaria2 sites
- Aclisina1 site
- Arcavicula hohxilensis1 site
- Bakevellia costata1 site
- Bakevellia exporrecta1 site
- Bakevellia pannonica1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Entolium1 site
- Entolium discites1 site
- Entolium microtis1 site
- Eumorphotis iwanowi1 site
- Eumorphotis telleri1 site
- Gervillia1 site
- Guizhouspira venusta1 site
- Leptochondria albertii1 site
- Leptochondria bittneri1 site
- Leptochondria illyrica1 site
- Leptochondria virgalensis1 site
- Leptochondria xijinwulanensis1 site
- Naticopsis (Dicosmos) eyerichi1 site
- Natiria gemmulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eumorphotis huancangensis, 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
2 references- Lower Triassic, Xihuancang Formation, Jianghe Formation, Yangkang Formation2
- Late Permian to Miocene bivalve assemblages from Hohxil, Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China1
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
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No picture of Eumorphotis huancangensis 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 huancangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eumorphotis huancangensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itEumorphotis through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen 1976