Harpidella minima
No picture of Harpidella minima 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 Harpidella minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarpidellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Harpidella minima 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Harpidella minima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Harpidella minima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Harpidella minima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Christiania2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Cyclopyge vigilans2 sites
- Diacalymene consimilis2 sites
- Encrinurus2 sites
- Holtedahlina sulcata2 sites
- Kullervo2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) septata2 sites
- Lonchodomas2 sites
- Meadowtownella2 sites
- Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens2 sites
- Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei2 sites
- Ptychopleurella2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Sowerbyella gigantea2 sites
- Sphaeragnostus gaspensis2 sites
- Sphaerexochus bridgei2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe dentata2 sites
- Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) gaspeensis2 sites
- Stenopareia perceensis2 sites
- Symphysops spinifera2 sites
- Tretaspis2 sites
- Achatella (Achatella)1 site
- Apsidoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Harpidella minima, 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
2 references- New brachiopods and trilobites from the Ordovician of Perce, Quebec2
- Trilobites of the Pabos Formation (Ashgillian, Upper Ordovician), Percé area, Quebec1
Each of the 3 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 Harpidella minima 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 Harpidella minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Harpidella minima 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHarpidella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schuchert and Cooper 1930)