Eurymyella

Eurymyella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ModiomorphinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 6 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesSilurian453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.2 Mya438.6 Mya453.3 Mya432.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Eurymyella 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

6 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

3 formations

Boda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EUpper Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°ELower Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°E

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

Eurymyella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eurymyella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eurymyella, 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

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Eurymyella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eurymyella 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 itModiomorphinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1912