Hebertella alveata
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- HebertellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Hebertella alveata 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
19 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
5 formations
- Stonington Formation5
- Whitewater Formation · Richmondian Group3
- Big Hill Formation1
- Elkhorn Formation · Richmondian Group1
- Lower Whitewater Formation · Richmondian Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Hebertella alveata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hebertella alveata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hebertella alveata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Platystrophia acutilirata16 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis11 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax11 sites
- Plaesiomys subquadratus10 sites
- Rhynchotrema dentatum8 sites
- Vinlandostrophia moritura7 sites
- Helicelasma rusticum6 sites
- Platystrophia clarksvillensis6 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata6 sites
- Tetraphalerella neglecta6 sites
- Zygospira modesta6 sites
- Dalmanella5 sites
- Strophomena parvula5 sites
- Strophomena vetusta5 sites
- Vinlandostrophia annieana5 sites
- Glyptorthis insculpta4 sites
- Strophomena sulcata4 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra3 sites
- Ceraurus3 sites
- Cincinnetina meeki3 sites
- Conularia3 sites
- Cyclonema minuta3 sites
- Eochonetes clarksvillensis3 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Hebertella alveata, 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
3 references- GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella12
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan6
- The coral horizons and stratigraphy of the upper Richmond Group in Kentucky west of the Cincinnati Arch1
Each of the 19 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 Hebertella alveata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHebertella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1909