Heterelasmina pygmaea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterelasminaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Heterelasmina pygmaea on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Heterelasmina pygmaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterelasmina pygmaea and its relatives
PermianWhere Heterelasmina pygmaea and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Glyptorhynchia lens4 sites
- Mimaria lepton4 sites
- Wellerella arthaberi4 sites
- Camarophorinella leveni3 sites
- Compressoproductus mongolicus3 sites
- Echinauriella jisuensiformis3 sites
- Enteletes meridionalis3 sites
- Gerassimovia abalakovi3 sites
- Haydenella dutkevitchi3 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis3 sites
- Leptodus3 sites
- Notothyris pseudodjoulfensis3 sites
- Richthofenia caucasica3 sites
- Gerassimovia pamirica2 sites
- Geyerella alpina2 sites
- Martinia warthi2 sites
- Notothyrina pontica2 sites
- Strophalosiina multicostata2 sites
- Anidanthus sinosus1 site
- Enteletella nikschitchi1 site
- Enteletes dzhagrensis1 site
- Hybostenoscisma armenica1 site
- Marginifera sexcostata1 site
- Orthotichia avushensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Heterelasmina pygmaea, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Heterelasmina pygmaea 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 Heterelasmina pygmaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterelasmina pygmaea 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.
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What may have been alongside itHeterelasmina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grunt 1973