Hermatostroma afghanense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HermatostromaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Hermatostroma afghanense on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Dewal Formation · Nawar Group3
- Sin Ghar Formation2
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The named rock units Hermatostroma afghanense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hermatostroma afghanense and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hermatostroma afghanense and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Alveolites2 sites
- Amphipora2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Hexagonaria2 sites
- Scoliopora2 sites
- Stachyodes2 sites
- Stictostroma2 sites
- Stromatopora2 sites
- Thamnopora2 sites
- Allonema1 site
- Alveolitidae1 site
- Atelodictyon1 site
- Atelodictyon dewalense1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypacea1 site
- Auloporidae1 site
- Aulostegites1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdiacypris1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Clathrocoilona1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Clathrocoilona obliterata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hermatostroma afghanense, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hermatostroma afghanense was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hermatostroma afghanense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hermatostroma afghanense 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 itHermatostroma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mistiaen 1985