Hindia sphaeroidalis

Hindia sphaeroidalis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
HindiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hindia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hindia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 38 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 18 of 38 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 38 occurrencesDevonian471–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 4 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452.3 Mya419.62 Mya471 Mya412 Mya

38 occurrences of Hindia sphaeroidalis 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

38 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

Vaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WCape Phillips — 75.14°N, 93.90°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°WMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°ECatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WMaquoketa — 43.55°N, 92.00°WMaquoketa — 43.50°N, 92.13°WMaquoketa — 43.68°N, 92.38°WRoss — 35.93°N, 88.09°WRoss — 35.78°N, 88.08°WFairbridge Volcanics — 32.78°S, 148.91°EFairbridge Volcanics — 32.12°S, 148.86°EHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WArnheim — 35.50°N, 86.50°WScales Shale — 43.00°N, 91.65°WVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°W

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The named rock units Hindia sphaeroidalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hindia sphaeroidalis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Hindia sphaeroidalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Hindia sphaeroidalis, 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

11 references

Each of the 38 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 content1

Picture of Hindia sphaeroidalis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hindia sphaeroidalis 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 itHindia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1879)