Hippellozoon

lcolmer · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- PhidoloporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Hippellozoon on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hippellozoon 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.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Amastigia1 site
- Amphiblestrum trifolium1 site
- Anarthropora biarmata1 site
- Arachnopusia1 site
- Arachnopusia bugei1 site
- Arachnopusia unicornis1 site
- Aspidostoma curvatum1 site
- Bryopastor1 site
- Buchneria1 site
- Buffonellaria1 site
- Caberea1 site
- Callopora1 site
- Cellaria1 site
- Cellaria immersa1 site
- Cellaria tenuirostris1 site
- Cellepora1 site
- Cellepora glomerata1 site
- Celleporina1 site
- Celleporina lichenoporoides1 site
- Celleporina tiara1 site
- Chaperia cristata1 site
- Chaperia galeata1 site
- Chaperia rubida1 site
- Chaperiopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hippellozoon, 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
2 references- Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand1
- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Hippellozoon
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- lcolmer
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Hippellozoon 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 itPhidoloporidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1917