Halysites nitida

Halysites nitida

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 6 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439.4 Mya422.7 Mya440.6 Mya419.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Halysites nitida 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

6 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

3 formations

Mont Wissick — 47.67°N, 68.83°WSükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°EWest Point — 48.15°N, 64.96°W

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The named rock units Halysites nitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Halysites nitida and its relatives

Silurian

Where Halysites nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Halysites nitida, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Halysites nitida

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Lambe 1899)