Hillophyllum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TryplasmatinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 16 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesDevonian459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–456 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 6 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 6 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457.2 Mya413.02 Mya459.2 Mya409.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Hillophyllum on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

17 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

8 formations

Fossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 149.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 148.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.59°S, 148.89°EBelubula — 34.00°S, 149.00°EQuondong Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EQuondong Limestone — 33.92°S, 148.20°ERegans Creek Limestone — 33.50°S, 148.88°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EVandon Limestone — 33.63°S, 148.78°EBillabong Creek Limestone — 33.33°S, 147.97°EBursykhirmanskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°E

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The named rock units Hillophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hillophyllum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Hillophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Hillophyllum, 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

9 references

Each of the 17 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 Hillophyllum 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 Hillophyllum, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webby 1971