Hexagonaria hexagona
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HexagonariaPBDB
- 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 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 375.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Hexagonaria hexagona 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hexagonaria hexagona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hexagonaria hexagona and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hexagonaria hexagona and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Disphyllum caespitosum2 sites
- Heliophyllum2 sites
- Altaiophyllum1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Athyris concentrica1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bethanyphyllum1 site
- Breviphyllum1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camarotoechia prolifica1 site
- Charactophyllum1 site
- Chonophyllum magnificum1 site
- Cladopora1 site
- Cladopora labiosa1 site
- Cladopora roemeri1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cupularostrum congregata1 site
- Cyathophyllum1 site
- Cyathophyllum (Cyathophyllum)1 site
- Cyathophyllum robustum1 site
- Cyathophyllum rugosum1 site
- Cystiphylloides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hexagonaria hexagona, 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
5 references- Stratigraphie und Systematik rugoser Korallen aus dem Givetium und Unter-Frasnium des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges (Sauerland/Bergisches Land) [Stratigraphy and systematics of rugose corals from the Givetian and Lower Frasnian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Sauerland/Bergisches Land)]2
- Rugose corals from the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains1
- Rugose corals of the Lower-Middle and Middle-Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)1
- Stratigraphic distribution of Givetian and Upper Devonian rugose corals in central Kazakhstan1
- The Devonian of California1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Hexagonaria hexagona 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 Hexagonaria hexagona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hexagonaria hexagona 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 itHexagonaria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)