Hillites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizobasinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Hillites on record, most of them in the Late 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
12 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
- Woodbine Formation9
- Lewisville Formation · Woodbine Group1
- Blackdown Greensand Formation1
- Tucumcari Formation1
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The named rock units Hillites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hillites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hillites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Cymbophora8 sites
- Euspira6 sites
- Ostrea soleniscus6 sites
- Phelopteria dalli6 sites
- Priscomactra6 sites
- Corbula5 sites
- Exogyra columbella5 sites
- Gymnentome5 sites
- Gyrodes5 sites
- Parmicorbula5 sites
- Protarca5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Conlinoceras tarrantense4 sites
- Leptosolen4 sites
- Senis4 sites
- Yoldia4 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Brachidontes3 sites
- Metengonoceras dumbli3 sites
- Natica dorothiensis3 sites
- Nelltia stenzeli3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Protocardia3 sites
- Protodonax3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Hillites, 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
3 references- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas10
- Nearshore fauna of the Tucumcari Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian), Quay County, New Mexico1
- Predatory gastropods and their activities in the Blackdown Greensand (Albian) of England1
Each of the 12 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 Hillites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hillites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSchizobasinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1952