Hemicosmitoida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhombiferaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 60 of 132 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 72 of 132 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 132 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 6 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 12 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 6 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 9 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 7 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 7 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 7 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 8 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 16 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 11 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 11 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468 Mya425 Mya480 Mya418 Mya

132 occurrences of Hemicosmitoida 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

132 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

53 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.11°WScotch Grove — 41.88°N, 90.55°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.20°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WOsgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WVasalemma — 59.24°N, 24.29°EVasalemma — 59.23°N, 24.23°EVasalemma — 59.30°N, 24.65°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°EWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WBo Ngam — 14.83°N, 98.81°ESlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.80°N, 4.55°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.79°N, 4.49°WPagari — 59.26°N, 27.40°EPagari — 59.31°N, 24.31°EPagari — 59.31°N, 24.43°EMeitan — 27.00°N, 105.00°ERochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WBainbridge Limestone — 38.22°N, 90.67°WBainbridge Limestone — 37.80°N, 90.05°WJonstorp — 61.00°N, 15.13°ELangøyene — 60.06°N, 10.21°ELangøyene — 66.77°N, 13.47°ESteinvika — 58.99°N, 9.75°ESholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.53°WMadise — 59.26°N, 27.40°EMadise — 59.31°N, 24.31°ELockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WLouisville Limestone — 40.55°N, 84.57°W

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The named rock units Hemicosmitoida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hemicosmitoida and its relatives

Silurian

Where Hemicosmitoida and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Hemicosmitoida, 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

34 references

Each of the 132 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. 22 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

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No picture of Hemicosmitoida 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 Hemicosmitoida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hemicosmitoida 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. Jaekel 1918