Helminthoidichnites marinus

No picture of Helminthoidichnites marinus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Helminthoidichnites marinus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelminthoidichnitesPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 3 occurrences639–632 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences632–625 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences625–618 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences618–611 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences611–604 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences604–597 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences597–590 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences590–583 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences583–576 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences576–569 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences569–562 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences562–555 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences555–548 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences548–541 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences541–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences492–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–478 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences478–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences538.8 Mya443.1 Mya639 Mya429 Mya

3 occurrences of Helminthoidichnites marinus 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

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

Powers Steps — 47.63°N, 52.99°WDeerhope — 55.82°N, 3.34°WTamengo — 19.02°S, 57.68°W

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The named rock units Helminthoidichnites marinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Helminthoidichnites marinus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Helminthoidichnites marinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Helminthoidichnites marinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each 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. 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

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No picture of Helminthoidichnites marinus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Helminthoidichnites marinus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Helminthoidichnites marinus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Emmons 1844)