Eurymya
No picture of Eurymya was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Eurymya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColpomyidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
8 occurrences of Eurymya on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Platteville Formation2
- Fairview Formation1
- Mifflin Formation1
- Grand Detour Formation1
- Nachusa Formation1
- Quimbys Mill Formation1
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The named rock units Eurymya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eurymya and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eurymya and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Cymatonota7 sites
- Sphenolium7 sites
- Ambonychiopsis6 sites
- Cleionychia6 sites
- Cyrtodonta6 sites
- Cyrtodontula6 sites
- Vanuxemia6 sites
- Whiteavesia6 sites
- Alaskadiscus subacutus5 sites
- Bucania halli5 sites
- Bucania sublata5 sites
- Clathrospira subconica5 sites
- Ctenodonta5 sites
- Deceptrix5 sites
- Eunema centralis5 sites
- Eunema helicteres5 sites
- Fusispira spicula5 sites
- Helicotoma planulata5 sites
- Holopea ampla5 sites
- Holopea concinnula5 sites
- Holopea insignis5 sites
- Holopea rotunda5 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis5 sites
- Lesueurilla beloitensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eurymya, 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
4 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota5
- Early Ordovician (Arenig) bivalves from the Llangynog Inlier, South Wales1
- Ordovician pelecypods from the Upper Mississippi Valley1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Eurymya was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Eurymya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eurymya 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 itColpomyidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1894