Healdia arkonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HealdiaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Healdia arkonensis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
9 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group6
- Moscow Formation3
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The named rock units Healdia arkonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Healdia arkonensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Healdia arkonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Cryptophyllus arsinius8 sites
- Ctenoloculina cicatricosa8 sites
- Birdsallella devonica7 sites
- Coelonella scapha7 sites
- Ctenoloculina eurybathrota7 sites
- Jenningsina catenulata7 sites
- Kirkbyella (Berdanella) unicornis7 sites
- Ponderodictya punctulifera7 sites
- Ulrichia illinearis7 sites
- Ulrichia spinifera7 sites
- Bythocyproidea eriensis6 sites
- Monoceratina casei6 sites
- Ulrichia fragilis6 sites
- Adelphobolbina spicata5 sites
- Adelphobolbina trilobata5 sites
- Arcyzona campylactinota5 sites
- Arcyzona rhabdota5 sites
- Bairdiocypris gongylus5 sites
- Bairdiocypris transptyxis5 sites
- Balantoides trilobata5 sites
- Birdsallella tumida5 sites
- Bufina abbreviata5 sites
- Bufina curti5 sites
- Bufina spinulifera5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Healdia arkonensis, 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- Ostracods of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation6
- Ostracoda from the Windom Shale (Hamilton) of Western New York3
Each of the 9 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Healdia arkonensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Healdia arkonensis 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 itHealdia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Malkin 1936