Halobia
Searched as Halobia superba superba. The Paleobiology Database treats Halobia as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HalobiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Halobia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Halobia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Halobia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Halobia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
721 taxa- Ammonoidea21 sites
- Inoceramus ussuriensis19 sites
- Oxytoma mojsisovicsi17 sites
- Bivalvia16 sites
- Gastropoda16 sites
- Chlamys mojsisovicsi13 sites
- Tosapecten subhiemalis12 sites
- Arcestes11 sites
- Nuculana11 sites
- Palaeopharus11 sites
- Tosapecten suzukii11 sites
- Tropites11 sites
- Monotis (Eomonotis) scutiformis10 sites
- Oxytoma10 sites
- Oxytoma zitteli10 sites
- Umbrostrea montiscaprilis10 sites
- Schafhaeutlia9 sites
- Septocardia9 sites
- Discotropites8 sites
- Juvavites8 sites
- Palaeoneilo8 sites
- Pleuromya8 sites
- Protrachyceras8 sites
- Tosapecten8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 508 sites for Halobia, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Halobia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Halobia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHalobiidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1830