Hillaepora

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachyporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 11 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya382.31 Mya428 Mya371 Mya

11 occurrences of Hillaepora 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

11 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

6 formations

Kowala — 50.83°N, 20.37°EKowala — 50.93°N, 20.53°EKowala — 50.77°N, 20.72°ELoogh — 50.52°N, 6.55°EKürten — 50.52°N, 6.55°ERodert — 50.52°N, 6.55°EAmain — 44.68°N, 104.50°ECelechovice — 49.35°N, 16.72°E

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The named rock units Hillaepora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hillaepora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Hillaepora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hillaepora, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Hillaepora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPachyporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mironova 1960