Hedstroemina fragilis
No picture of Hedstroemina fragilis 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 Hedstroemina fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HedstroeminaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Hedstroemina fragilis 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
6 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 Hedstroemina fragilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hedstroemina fragilis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hedstroemina fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hedstroemina fragilis, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 6 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.
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No picture of Hedstroemina fragilis 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 Hedstroemina fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hedstroemina fragilis 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 itHedstroemina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bancroft 1929