Hexatractiella

No picture of Hexatractiella 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 Hexatractiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 512.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 4 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 4 occurrences518–514 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences436–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences512.1 Mya419.62 Mya518 Mya411 Mya

4 occurrences of Hexatractiella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Huangboling — 30.10°N, 116.93°ERoberts Mountains — 41.28°N, 116.07°W

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The named rock units Hexatractiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexatractiella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Hexatractiella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hexatractiella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each 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. 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

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No picture of Hexatractiella 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 Hexatractiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hexatractiella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProtospongiidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mehl 1996