Halysites

Halysites is an extinct genus of tabulate coral. Colonies range from less than one to tens of centimeters in diameter, and they fed upon plankton.

Halysites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HalysitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 34 of 352 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 317 of 352 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 352 occurrencesDevonian472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 8 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 8 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 10 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 16 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 39 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 25 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 25 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 38 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 51 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 43 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 34 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 20 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 4 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.2 Mya419.62 Mya472 Mya412 Mya

352 occurrences of Halysites 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

352 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

123 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 40.00°N, 97.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.15°N, 90.68°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WSlite — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESlite — 57.93°N, 19.17°ESlite — 57.27°N, 17.97°ESlite — 57.77°N, 19.02°ESlite — 57.68°N, 18.78°ESlite — 57.77°N, 18.78°ESlite — 57.73°N, 18.47°ESlite — 57.63°N, 18.38°ESlite — 57.47°N, 18.18°ESlite — 57.52°N, 18.43°ECedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 100.30°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 100.00°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.30°N, 100.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 50.70°N, 98.03°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EWest Point — 48.17°N, 65.83°WWest Point — 48.18°N, 64.98°WUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.80°N, 18.50°EHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WBrassfield — 41.13°N, 84.23°WBrassfield — 38.14°N, 85.53°WBrassfield — 37.72°N, 83.98°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WBrassfield — 39.81°N, 83.98°WMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 50.05°N, 14.37°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.66°N, 105.96°ENingqiang — 32.82°N, 106.25°ENingqiang — 33.05°N, 106.65°ERacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.80°N, 100.30°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.92°N, 101.33°WEast Arm Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.43°N, 116.63°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.50°N, 116.64°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.74°N, 117.51°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.57°N, 117.79°WLower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°ELower Visby — 57.83°N, 18.57°ELower Visby — 57.63°N, 18.28°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WSükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°ERead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.81°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.43°WHopkinton Dolomite — 42.43°N, 90.77°WHopkinton Dolomite — 42.20°N, 90.52°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WManistique — 45.06°N, 87.12°WManistique — 45.29°N, 86.98°WGower — 41.51°N, 90.58°WGower — 42.02°N, 91.65°WGower — 42.05°N, 91.00°WHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°E

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The named rock units Halysites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 99 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Halysites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Halysites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 269 sites for Halysites, 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

95 references

Each of the 352 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. 83 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 content2

Picture of Halysites

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Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
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The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Waldheim 1813