Hermanites

Hermanites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HemicytheridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Hemicytheridae

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 46 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 46 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–9.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.0–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–1.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93.9 Mya5.333 Mya115 Mya1 Mya

46 occurrences of Hermanites on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

46 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

17 formations

Yazoo — 31.92°N, 88.40°WLares Limestone — 18.37°N, 67.00°WAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WPalizzi — 39.95°N, 16.03°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°EAlazán — 20.93°N, 97.60°WCibao Marl — 18.38°N, 66.98°WSubathu — 30.98°N, 77.02°EAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°EAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°EBateque — 26.23°N, 112.38°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WPalermo Aike — 50.75°S, 70.33°W

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The named rock units Hermanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hermanites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hermanites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

902 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Hermanites, 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

21 references

Each of the 46 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. 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Hermanites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHemicytheridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Puri 1955