Halysites junior
No picture of Halysites junior was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Halysites junior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HalysitesPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Halysites junior 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
18 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
6 formations
- Slite Formation9
- Chokusin Formation1
- Tsagan-Bulakian Formation1
- Karakhem Formation1
- Baruun-Urt Formation1
- Maasi Formation1
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The named rock units Halysites junior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Halysites junior and its relatives
SilurianWhere Halysites junior and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Halysites senior6 sites
- Cystihalysites5 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Tannuspirifer3 sites
- Aulopora enodis2 sites
- Coenites juniperinus2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Palaeofavosites collatatus2 sites
- Paleofavosites2 sites
- Simplexodictyon2 sites
- Stegerhynchus diodontus2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Thecia confluens2 sites
- Tuvaella2 sites
- Ahgopora hisingeri1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Aulocystella1 site
- Barrandeolites1 site
- Brachyprion (Brachyprion) semiglobosa1 site
- Cladopora1 site
- Densastroma pexisum1 site
- Didymothyris biohermica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Halysites junior, 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
7 references- The halysitid coral genera Halysites and Cystihalysites from Gotland, Sweden9
- Silurian brachiopod communities of Mongolia3
- The Incommunicate Tabulata of Estonia2
- Stromatoporoids and Tabulata from the Wenlock-Ludlow Boundary of the Eastern Slope of the Urals1
- Locality 6:4 Sepise1
- Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]1
- Kompleksy rannesiluriyskikh tabulyatomorfnykh korallov zapadnogo Sayana i ikh ekologicheskiye osobennosti [Early Silurian tabulate coral assemblages of the western Sayan region and their ecologic characteristics]1
Each of the 18 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. 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
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No picture of Halysites junior was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Halysites junior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Halysites junior 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 itHalysites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klaamann 1961