Hippomenella vellicata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HippomenellaPBDB
- 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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21.7 Mya to 340 ka.
6 occurrences of Hippomenella vellicata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene33%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
- Kaipuke Siltstone Formation · Westhaven Group1
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The named rock units Hippomenella vellicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hippomenella vellicata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hippomenella vellicata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Arachnopusia unicornis5 sites
- Cellaria immersa5 sites
- Fenestrulina malusi3 sites
- Holoporella hastigera3 sites
- Odontionella cyclops3 sites
- Selenaria macgillivrayi3 sites
- Cellaria tenuirostris2 sites
- Chaperia acanthina2 sites
- Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina2 sites
- Escharella fistula2 sites
- Hippothoa hyalina2 sites
- Opaeophora lepida2 sites
- Patsyella dentata2 sites
- Patsyella flemingi2 sites
- Spiroporina pentagona2 sites
- Spiroporina polypora2 sites
- Steginoporella neozelanica2 sites
- Amphiblestrum trifolium1 site
- Caberea zelandica1 site
- Calloporina diadema1 site
- Celleporaria agglutinans1 site
- Celleporina1 site
- Chaperia cervicornis1 site
- Chaperia colensoi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hippomenella vellicata, 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- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand5
- Bryozoan fauna of the Kaipuke Siltstone, northwest Nelson: a Miocene homologue of the modern Tasman Bay coralline bryozoan grounds1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Hippomenella vellicata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hippomenella vellicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hippomenella vellicata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHippomenella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hutton 1873)