Eunicemorpha
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolychaetaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Time the record covers
At least 301 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.8 Mya to 145.06 Mya.
123 occurrences of Eunicemorpha on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
123 occurrences- Ordovician30%
- Silurian58%
- Devonian3%
- Carboniferous7%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassicunder 1%
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
42 formations
- Kopanina Formation41
- New Albany Shale Formation7
- Hulderstad Formation5
- Korgessaare Formation5
- Fairview Formation4
- Overton Formation4
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The named rock units Eunicemorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eunicemorpha and its relatives
SilurianWhere Eunicemorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
923 taxa- Kettnerites34 sites
- Oenonites25 sites
- Pistoprion19 sites
- Mochtyella15 sites
- Rafinesquina15 sites
- Xanioprion15 sites
- Chitinozoa14 sites
- Placognatha indet.14 sites
- Porifera14 sites
- Conodonta13 sites
- Homotrypa13 sites
- Nereidavus13 sites
- Platystrophia13 sites
- Brachiopoda12 sites
- Ceramoporella12 sites
- Conularia12 sites
- Ctenodonta12 sites
- Cyclora12 sites
- Hallopora12 sites
- Isotelus12 sites
- Nuculites12 sites
- Ostracoda12 sites
- Petrocrania12 sites
- Serpulites12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Eunicemorpha, 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
21 references- A jawed polychaete fauna from the Late Ludlow Kozlowskii event interval in the Prague Basin (Czech Republic)41
- Silurian paulinitid polychaetes from Gotland19
- Hulterstad brachiopods and associated faunas in the Vormsi Stage (Upper Ordovician, Katian) of the Lelle core, Central Estonia17
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region14
- Paleoecology and Sedimentology of the Rockford Limestone and Upper New Albany Shale (Lower Mississippian) in southern Indiana7
- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England4
- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)3
- A dinichthyid in Middle Devonian of Iowa3
- The earliest known Stegerhynchus (Rhynchonellida, Brachiopoda) from the Hirnantian strata (uppermost Ordovician) at Borenshult, Östergötland, Sweden2
- Brachiospongidae: a memoir on a group of Silurian sponges2
- The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)1
- Late Ordovician jaw-bearing polychaetes from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, and their biogeographic significance1
Each of the 123 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. 9 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 Eunicemorpha 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 Eunicemorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eunicemorpha 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 itPolychaeta through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.