Hamptonia christi
No picture of Hamptonia christi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Hamptonia christi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HamptoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hamptonia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hamptonia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hamptonia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 469.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hamptonia christi on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Fezouata Formation · Outer Feijas Group2
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The named rock units Hamptonia christi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hamptonia christi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hamptonia christi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Chasmataspidida1 site
- Choia1 site
- Choiaella1 site
- Clonograptus1 site
- Pirania auraeum1 site
- Symphysurus1 site
- Tariccoia tazagurtensis1 site
- Valospongia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hamptonia christi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Diversity and ecology of sponges in the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota, Morocco1
- "Cambrian" demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Hamptonia christi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hamptonia christi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hamptonia christi 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.
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What may have been alongside itHamptonia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Botting 2007