Eunicites

Eunicites

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeodicidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Polychaeta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polychaeta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Polychaeta
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.

Ordovician — about 2 of 9 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrences460–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences364–353 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences353–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences246–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–150 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences150–139 Mya — about 4 occurrences451 Mya149.2 Mya460 Mya139 Mya

9 occurrences of Eunicites on record, most of them in the Late 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

9 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

6 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WNew Albany Shale — 38.50°N, 85.59°WLexington — 38.17°N, 84.83°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°E

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The named rock units Eunicites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eunicites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Eunicites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Eunicites, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 Eunicites

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eunicites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLeodicidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehlers 1868