Hemisinus jacksonius

The Regents of the University of Michigan · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- HemisinusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Thiaridae
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hemisinus jacksonius on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Hemisinus jacksonius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemisinus jacksonius and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hemisinus jacksonius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Abdounia enniskilleni1 site
- Anosteira crowcreekensis1 site
- Arius1 site
- Baptemys1 site
- Basilosauridae1 site
- Basilosaurus cetoides1 site
- Borealosuchus1 site
- Carcharhinus gibbesii1 site
- Carcharias hopei1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Crassostrea1 site
- Dasyatis1 site
- Diaphyodus1 site
- Diplobunops matthewi1 site
- Galeocerdo latidens1 site
- Galeorhinus1 site
- Ginglymostoma serra1 site
- Hemipristis curvatus1 site
- Lepisosteus1 site
- Myliobatis1 site
- Mytilus1 site
- Pantolestes natans1 site
- Pristis1 site
- Propristis schweinfurthi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hemisinus jacksonius, 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
3 references- Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of marginal marine gulf coast Eocene vertebrate localities1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- The Mollusca of the Mississippi Embayment (Sabine River to the Alabama River). Pt. II. Univalves and index1
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
Media content1

Picture of Hemisinus jacksonius
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Hemisinus jacksonius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHemisinus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris and Palmer 1947