Heckerites multistellatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeckeritesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Heckerites multistellatus 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Heckerites multistellatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heckerites multistellatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Heckerites multistellatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Atractopyge1 site
- Bassettella alata1 site
- Bassettella gracilis1 site
- Bilobia alichovae1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Chasmops1 site
- Chasmops marginatus1 site
- Conolichas triconicus1 site
- Discoceras antiquissima1 site
- Estlandia hispida1 site
- Estoniops bekkeri1 site
- Hemisphaerocoryphe huebneri1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Laccochilina tarda1 site
- Metopolichas1 site
- Neoasaphus1 site
- Neoplatystrophia lynx1 site
- Nieszkowskia cephaloceras1 site
- Otarozoum peri1 site
- Panderia sp.1 site
- Platybolbina plana1 site
- Platystrophia pogrebovi1 site
- Prionocheilus1 site
- Ristnacrinus marinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heckerites multistellatus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Heckerites multistellatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Heckerites multistellatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heckerites multistellatus 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 itHeckerites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rozhnov 2012