Eurypteridae

Eurypteridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EurypteroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At least 123 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 309.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 307.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 48 occurrencesSilurian — about 45 of 48 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 48 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 48 occurrencesCarboniferous446–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 10 occurrences427–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 15 occurrences418–413 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432.9 Mya309.8 Mya446 Mya305 Mya

48 occurrences of Eurypteridae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

48 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

29 formations

Steinsfjorden — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESteinsfjorden — 59.90°N, 10.53°ESteinsfjorden — 60.03°N, 10.28°EBertie — 43.45°N, 74.95°WBertie — 43.00°N, 78.07°WBertie — 42.88°N, 78.88°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WSyracuse — 43.07°N, 76.33°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WSintan Shale — 31.00°N, 112.00°EVernon Shale — 43.08°N, 77.52°WRead Bay — 75.00°N, 95.00°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WLeopold — 73.86°N, 90.25°WTonoloway — 40.90°N, 76.89°WTonoloway — 40.45°N, 77.83°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WAkron — 42.85°N, 78.80°WMuksha subsuite — 48.00°N, 26.00°ETymochtee — 41.67°N, 84.33°WReservoir — 56.00°N, 3.00°WKirkby Moor Flags — 54.32°N, 2.75°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.73°WTemeside Shale — 52.37°N, 2.73°WHogklint — 57.57°N, 18.30°ERootsikula — 58.42°N, 22.50°EPaadla — 58.25°N, 22.50°ESundvollen — 59.92°N, 10.75°EFraenkelryggen — 79.83°N, 12.00°EKitaigorod — 49.00°N, 29.00°EUstje — 49.00°N, 28.00°E

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The named rock units Eurypteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eurypteridae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Eurypteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Eurypteridae, 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

15 references

Each of the 48 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Eurypteridae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Eurypteridae 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 itEurypteroidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1845