Hibolithes

Hibolithes

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
MesohibolitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 113 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 11 of 113 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 23 of 113 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 80 of 113 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–135 Mya — about 7 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 7 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 12 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 15 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 15 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 15 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences170.9 Mya125.77 Mya176 Mya120 Mya

113 occurrences of Hibolithes on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

113 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

15 formations

Palnatokes Bjerg — 74.46°N, 20.17°WPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.45°N, 20.14°WPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.55°N, 19.83°WPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.59°N, 19.58°WBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°ELatady — 75.33°S, 66.50°WLatady — 75.92°S, 69.92°WLatady — 75.88°S, 69.83°WLar — 36.67°N, 53.42°EPounawea — 46.45°S, 169.55°EPounawea — 46.45°S, 169.70°EPounawea — 46.47°S, 169.76°ELabatlan Sandstone — 47.75°N, 18.50°EPurakauiti — 46.53°S, 169.55°ESpringhill — 49.00°S, 72.25°WHauberg Mountains — 75.55°S, 66.58°WPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EStanwell Coal Measures — 23.48°S, 150.32°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EDietfurt — 49.95°N, 11.08°EOgrodzieniec Glauconitic Marl — 50.46°N, 19.52°E

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The named rock units Hibolithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hibolithes and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Hibolithes and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Hibolithes, 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

24 references

Each of the 113 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. 12 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 Hibolithes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Hibolithes 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 itMesohibolitidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mayer-Eymar 1883