Heliolitidae

Heliolites Dana, 1846, a relative of Heliolitidae — not Heliolitidae itself

Not Heliolitidae. This is Heliolites Dana, 1846, a relative — both are Heliolitidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
HelioliticaePBDB
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 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 64 of 595 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 384 of 595 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 147 of 595 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 595 occurrences474–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 7 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 17 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 23 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 19 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 35 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 38 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 60 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 60 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 154 occurrences423–419 Mya — about 35 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 13 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 23 occurrences411–407 Mya — about 11 occurrences407–403 Mya — about 7 occurrences403–399 Mya — about 7 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 6 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 8 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 12 occurrences388–384 Mya — about 37 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 15 occurrences380–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.2 Mya368.5 Mya474 Mya357 Mya

595 occurrences of Heliolitidae 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

595 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

193 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 — 48.83°N, 64.48°WLa Vieille — 46.92°N, 66.00°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°WHemse 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°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WGascons — 48.18°N, 64.98°WGascons — 47.91°N, 66.52°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EPortilla — 42.85°N, 1.84°EPortilla — 42.88°N, 5.12°EPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°ESolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.34°S, 148.84°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.82°N, 18.48°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 106.05°ENingqiang — 32.82°N, 106.28°ENingqiang — 32.67°N, 105.97°EVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WLimestone Point — 46.92°N, 66.00°WLimestone Point — 47.73°N, 65.72°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.32°EMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WKhandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°EGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.58°WGazelle — 41.37°N, 122.67°WNa Quan — 22.68°N, 106.67°ENa Quan — 22.23°N, 106.18°ELouisville Limestone — 40.55°N, 84.57°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°W

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The named rock units Heliolitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 169 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliolitidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Heliolitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 334 sites for Heliolitidae, 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

163 references

Each of the 595 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. 151 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 Heliolites Dana, 1846

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heliolitidae 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 itHelioliticae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1876