Hippocardiidae

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HippocardioideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 95 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 95 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 75 of 95 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 19 of 95 occurrencesCarboniferous445–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–416 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences416–412 Mya — about 3 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 6 occurrences408–404 Mya — about 3 occurrences404–400 Mya — about 3 occurrences400–396 Mya — about 7 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 12 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 18 occurrences387–383 Mya — about 14 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 3 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–371 Mya — about 3 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–350 Mya — about 3 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 4 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–333 Mya — about 1 occurrence333–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432.9 Mya330.3 Mya445 Mya321 Mya

95 occurrences of Hippocardiidae 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

95 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

50 formations

Columbus Limestone — 40.52°N, 83.16°WColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WLambertenghi — 46.50°N, 13.00°EAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WAmherstburg — 43.88°N, 81.30°WCuyahoga — 40.81°N, 81.94°WCuyahoga — 41.03°N, 82.08°WCuyahoga — 40.76°N, 82.52°WTorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WCalcaire d’Erbray — 47.66°N, 1.32°WBongalaby — 35.02°S, 149.65°ECoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°ELilydale Limestone — 37.82°S, 144.97°EHutk — 30.57°N, 56.95°EHutk — 30.55°N, 57.00°EMobarak — 36.50°N, 54.55°EKanouse — 41.35°N, 74.11°WMaxville Limestone — 39.88°N, 82.29°WMaxville Limestone — 39.63°N, 82.33°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WBeechwood Limestone — 38.27°N, 85.76°WRomney — 39.70°N, 78.17°WRomney — 39.65°N, 78.76°WMilldale Limestone — 53.13°N, 1.53°WCürten — 51.81°N, 10.24°ECürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°EBicken-Ense — 50.71°N, 8.18°EBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WSylvania Sandstone — 41.56°N, 83.65°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WWhittaker — 62.42°N, 127.00°WMount Wyatt Earp — 79.35°S, 85.28°W

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The named rock units Hippocardiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippocardiidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Hippocardiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Hippocardiidae, 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

47 references

Each of the 95 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. 35 further references are not listed. 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 Hippocardiidae 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 Hippocardiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hippocardiidae 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 itHippocardioidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta and Runnegar 1976