Hexagonellidae

Coscinotrypa cribriformis (Prout, 1859), a relative of Hexagonellidae — not Hexagonellidae itself

Not Hexagonellidae. This is Coscinotrypa cribriformis (Prout, 1859), a relative — both are Hexagonellidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexagonellinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 210 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 342 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 342 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 342 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 123 of 342 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 215 of 342 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 342 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences362–354 Mya — about 2 occurrences354–346 Mya — about 5 occurrences346–339 Mya — about 26 occurrences339–331 Mya — about 37 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 26 occurrences324–316 Mya — about 6 occurrences316–308 Mya — about 12 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 8 occurrences301–293 Mya — about 24 occurrences293–286 Mya — about 49 occurrences286–278 Mya — about 19 occurrences278–270 Mya — about 28 occurrences270–263 Mya — about 51 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 35 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 11 occurrences464.3 Mya254.14 Mya476 Mya248 Mya

342 occurrences of Hexagonellidae 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

342 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

106 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WWargal — 33.00°N, 72.00°EWargal — 32.25°N, 71.14°EWargal — 32.21°N, 71.06°EWargal — 32.53°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.74°N, 71.64°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.97°N, 71.56°EChandalaz — 43.50°N, 132.10°EChandalaz — 43.20°N, 131.50°EChandalaz — 44.75°N, 131.20°EChandalaz — 43.85°N, 132.91°EChandalaz — 43.26°N, 132.26°EChandalaz — 43.25°N, 132.00°EChandalaz — 43.04°N, 133.14°EChandalaz — 43.44°N, 132.41°ECopacabana — 13.53°S, 72.89°WNerminskaya — 66.85°N, 53.70°ENerminskaya — 67.05°N, 52.70°ENerminskaya — 66.97°N, 49.75°ECopacabana — 19.12°S, 64.70°WCopacabana — 15.89°S, 68.91°WCopacabana — 16.32°S, 68.67°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.97°N, 96.86°WPort Keats — 14.43°S, 129.72°EPort Keats — 14.43°S, 129.57°EVladivostok — 44.38°N, 131.70°EVladivostok — 44.45°N, 131.40°ESelong — 28.46°N, 86.17°ESelong — 28.38°N, 86.11°ENordenskioldbreen — 78.53°N, 16.08°EBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EGlen Dean Limestone — 37.67°N, 86.54°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.48°N, 86.30°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.38°N, 86.61°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.60°WKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.59°N, 14.94°EKapp Starostin — 78.33°N, 16.82°EDashizhai — 43.55°N, 117.55°EDashizhai — 44.33°N, 119.09°EDashizhai — 43.94°N, 118.25°EDashizhai — 43.75°N, 119.62°EPoperima — 24.98°S, 151.37°ESalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.55°N, 85.70°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WKaibab — 38.62°N, 113.22°WKaibab — 36.06°N, 112.21°WKaibab — 36.21°N, 112.09°WLyudyanza — 44.79°N, 133.68°ELyudyanza — 42.93°N, 132.76°ELyudyanza — 45.13°N, 133.84°ELyudyanza — 43.05°N, 133.10°EBarabash — 43.29°N, 132.16°EBarabash — 44.45°N, 131.40°EBarabash — 44.42°N, 131.33°EYuquan — 43.94°N, 118.25°EYuquan — 45.41°N, 127.17°ECherokee Shale — 37.30°N, 94.95°WCherokee Shale — 37.65°N, 94.71°WChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°E

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The named rock units Hexagonellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexagonellidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Hexagonellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,661 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 284 sites for Hexagonellidae, and this reads 240 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

102 references

Each of the 342 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. 90 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 Coscinotrypa cribriformis (Prout, 1859)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hexagonellidae 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 itHexagonellina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crockford 1947