Hemithiris psittacea

Erin McKittrick · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- HemithirisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Hemithiris psittacea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene25%
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.
Hemithiris psittacea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hemithiris psittacea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Acipenser1 site
- Acirsa borealis1 site
- Astarte montagui1 site
- Aves1 site
- Axinopsida orbiculata1 site
- Balanus crenatus1 site
- Boreotrophon1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Buccinum glaciale1 site
- Buccinum plectrum1 site
- Buccinum scalariforme1 site
- Buccinum undatum1 site
- Chirona1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica1 site
- Clangula hyemalis1 site
- Colus1 site
- Crenella1 site
- Cryptacanthodes1 site
- Cryptonatica affinis1 site
- Delphinapterus leucas1 site
- Epitonium greenlandicum1 site
- Erignathus barbatus1 site
- Haminoea1 site
- Hiatella arctica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hemithiris psittacea, 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- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland2
- Brown bear (Ursus arctos) (9880 ± 35 BP) from late-glacial Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Canada, and the dispersal history of brown bears1
- Marine paleoclimatology and paleoecology of a Pleistocene invertebrate fauna from Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Hemithiris psittacea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Erin McKittrick
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHemithiris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1790)