Hemiptychina himalayensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemiptychinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
96 occurrences of Hemiptychina himalayensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
96 occurrences- Permian100%
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
8 formations
- Wargal Formation60
- Chhidru Formation21
- Amb Formation1
- Maokou Formation1
- Sijiashan Formation1
- Chandalaz Formation1
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The named rock units Hemiptychina himalayensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemiptychina himalayensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Hemiptychina himalayensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
701 taxa- Spirigerella derbyi64 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa55 sites
- Costiferina indica54 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis52 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis49 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni49 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus47 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis42 sites
- Chonetella nasuta41 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata41 sites
- Spirigerella grandis41 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa38 sites
- Athyrella hybrida37 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni36 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica35 sites
- Notothyris warthi35 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga34 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta33 sites
- Spirigerella proxima33 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata32 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata32 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana31 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis31 sites
- Athyris28 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Hemiptychina himalayensis, 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
11 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range71
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 115
- The Anthracolithic faunae of Kashmir, Kanaur and Spiti2
- Permian terebratulids of Eurasia: morphology, systematics, and phylogeny1
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
- Permiskie brakhiopodi yujnogo Primoriya1
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas1
- The Permocarboniferous fauna of Chitichun No. 11
- On the occurrence of Ammonites, associated with Ceratites, and Goniatites in the Carboniferous deposits of the Salt Range1
- On some Carboniferous Brachiopoda collected in India by A. Fleming, MD, and W. Purdon, Esq, FGS1
Each of the 96 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
Media content1

Picture of Hemiptychina himalayensis
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No 3D scan of Hemiptychina himalayensis 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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What may have been alongside itHemiptychina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1862)