Heritschioides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeritschioidinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
11 occurrences of Heritschioides on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous64%
- Permian36%
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
6 formations
- Blind Creek Limestone Formation3
- McCloud Limestone Formation2
- Ba'id Formation1
- Gaptank Formation1
- Tano Formation1
- Baird Formation1
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The named rock units Heritschioides 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.
Heritschioides and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Heritschioides and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Acosarina1 site
- Agathiceras ciscoense1 site
- Allotropiochisma (Abeophyllum) texanum1 site
- Allotropiochisma (Alligia) flabellum1 site
- Allotropiochisma (Allotropiochisma) uddenitense1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Amplexocarinia1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Assimulia (Assimulia) uddenitense1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Boesites texanus1 site
- Bradyphyllum1 site
- Bradyphyllum coagmentum1 site
- Bradyphyllum counterseptatum1 site
- Bradyphyllum postwannense1 site
- Caninia1 site
- Cardiella ganti1 site
- Composita1 site
- Corwenia jagoensis1 site
- Dibunophyllum1 site
- Dunbarites1 site
- Echinaria moorei1 site
- Emilites1 site
- Enteletes wolfcampensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Heritschioides, 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
9 references- Wolfcampian rugose and tabulate corals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) from the Lower Permian McCloud Limestone of northern California2
- Redescription of type specimens of the Permian rugose coral Waagenophyllum columbicum Smith, 1935, type species of Heritschioides Yabe, 19502
- Mixed Tethyan and McCloud Belt rugose corals and fusulinids in an Upper Triassic conglomerate, central Oregon1
- Middle Pennsylvanian rugose corals from the Baird Formation, Klamath Mountains, northwestern California1
- Upper Permian (Murghabian) rugose corals from Oman (Ba'id area, Saih Hatat): Community structure and contributions to reefbuilding processes1
- Korallen aus dem Mittel-Perm Irans (Aufsammlung O. Thiele)1
- Additional notes on late Palaeozoic corals found in the southern part of the Tamba district1
- Pennsylvanian, Permian rugose corals, Glass Mountains, Texas1
- Two Anthracolithic corals from British Columbia, and related species from the Tethys1
Each of the 11 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 Heritschioides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Heritschioides 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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What may have been alongside itHeritschioidinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yabe 1950