Heliolitida

Heliolitida

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
TabulataPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 452 of 1268 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 652 of 1268 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 162 of 1268 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 1268 occurrencesCarboniferous474–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–455 Mya — about 51 occurrences455–450 Mya — about 138 occurrences450–445 Mya — about 216 occurrences445–440 Mya — about 109 occurrences440–435 Mya — about 92 occurrences435–430 Mya — about 133 occurrences430–425 Mya — about 163 occurrences425–420 Mya — about 188 occurrences420–415 Mya — about 25 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 31 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 11 occurrences406–401 Mya — about 11 occurrences401–396 Mya — about 9 occurrences396–391 Mya — about 12 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 31 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 33 occurrences381–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 2 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences337–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya346.7 Mya474 Mya327 Mya

1,268 occurrences of Heliolitida 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

1,268 occurrences

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

291 formations

Douro — 73.25°N, 93.50°WDouro — 72.67°N, 99.55°WDouro — 75.25°N, 95.00°WDouro — 74.42°N, 95.00°WDouro — 75.00°N, 86.00°WDouro — 74.58°N, 95.50°WDouro — 73.93°N, 92.10°WDouro — 72.98°N, 91.66°WDouro — 72.82°N, 92.02°WLa Vieille — 47.73°N, 65.72°WLa Vieille — 46.92°N, 66.00°WLa Vieille — 48.83°N, 64.48°WLa Vieille — 48.13°N, 65.83°WLa Vieille — 48.22°N, 64.88°WLa Vieille — 48.18°N, 65.03°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.80°WDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.34°S, 148.84°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°ELiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WLiberty — 39.49°N, 84.95°WLiberty — 39.34°N, 84.95°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.06°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.05°WLiberty — 38.78°N, 85.37°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.79°N, 84.90°WWhitewater — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WWhitewater — 38.93°N, 83.52°WWhitewater — 46.02°N, 83.73°WWhitewater — 39.76°N, 84.19°WBrassfield — 37.66°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 39.78°N, 83.96°WBrassfield — 38.82°N, 83.51°WBrassfield — 39.48°N, 83.86°WBrassfield — 41.13°N, 84.23°WBrassfield — 39.97°N, 84.32°WBrassfield — 39.78°N, 84.86°WBrassfield — 39.26°N, 83.75°WBrassfield — 37.80°N, 84.09°WBrassfield — 37.71°N, 83.98°WBrassfield — 39.99°N, 84.35°WSanjushan — 28.70°N, 118.35°ESanjushan — 28.80°N, 118.38°ESanjushan — 28.72°N, 118.53°EBeiguoshan — 35.00°N, 107.00°EBeiguoshan — 36.00°N, 106.00°EBeiguoshan — 34.65°N, 108.57°EBeiguoshan — 36.21°N, 106.61°EXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EXiazhen — 28.75°N, 118.42°EXiazhen — 28.71°N, 118.38°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°ETsagaan Del — 46.41°N, 100.26°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 149.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 148.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.59°S, 148.89°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.82°N, 18.48°EBelubula — 34.00°S, 149.00°EBelubula — 33.63°S, 148.78°EBelubula — 33.00°S, 148.00°EGascons — 48.18°N, 64.98°WGascons — 47.91°N, 66.52°WChangwu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EChangwu — 28.72°N, 118.62°EBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 47.32°N, 70.57°WBecscie — 49.70°N, 63.99°WBecscie — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°ELimestone Point — 47.73°N, 65.72°WLimestone Point — 46.92°N, 66.00°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.32°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 106.05°ENingqiang — 32.83°N, 106.29°ENingqiang — 32.67°N, 105.97°E

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The named rock units Heliolitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 267 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 176 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliolitida and its relatives

Silurian

Where Heliolitida and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,770 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 604 sites for Heliolitida, and this reads 240 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

233 references

Each of the 1,268 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. 221 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Heliolitida

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Heliolitida 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1897