Unless the changes in sea level were of extreme amplitude, the regional
epeiric sea must have been fairly shallow for such widespread emergence to occur (cf.
The Arabian Gulf is an enclosed
epeiric sea connected to the world oceans via the relatively narrow Strait of Hormuz.
According to the data collected, Graptolites lived intermittently within the shallow benthos of the
epeiric sea of North America.
The shallow shelf of central Texas during early Cretaceous time exhibited a cyclically transitional shoreline and shallow marine environment along an
epeiric sea. Typical environments included streams, marshes, tidal flats, lagoons and shallow subtidal marine environments.
Controls on trace fossil diversity in an Early Cambrian
epeiric sea: new perspective from northwest Scotland.
Mollusc shell encrustation and bioerosion rates in a modern
epeiric sea: taphonomy experiments in the Java Sea, Indonesia.