Helicelasma whittardi
No picture of Helicelasma whittardi 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 Helicelasma whittardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicelasmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Helicelasma whittardi on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Helicelasma whittardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Helicelasma whittardi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Helicelasma whittardi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Axolasma2 sites
- Crassilasma2 sites
- Entelophyllum2 sites
- Zygospiraella duboisi2 sites
- Acanthocyclus1 site
- Acernaspis khatangensis1 site
- Asthenophyllum1 site
- Borealis borealis schmidti1 site
- Borealis nana1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
- Calostylis1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Catenipora arctica1 site
- Clathrodictyon kudriavzevi1 site
- Clavidictyon1 site
- Costaegera1 site
- Cryptothyrella lacrima1 site
- Dalmanites1 site
- Dalmanophyllum1 site
- Dinophyllum1 site
- Eocoelia hemisphaerica1 site
- Eophacops1 site
- Euomphalopterus subcarinata1 site
- Favosites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Helicelasma whittardi, 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 2 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
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No picture of Helicelasma whittardi 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 Helicelasma whittardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helicelasma whittardi 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 itHelicelasma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1930)