Hippuritidae

Hippuritidae

Fernando Losada Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
RadiolitoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunal, gregariousPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1205 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1205 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1204 of 1205 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1205 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 70 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 67 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 65 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 285 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 107 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 107 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 107 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 107 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 117 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 118 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 50 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

1,205 occurrences of Hippuritidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

1,205 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

74 formations

Milas — 37.38°N, 27.47°EMilas — 37.34°N, 27.56°EMilas — 37.21°N, 27.95°EMilas — 37.14°N, 28.02°EMilas — 37.32°N, 28.18°EMilas — 37.37°N, 28.27°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°ESant Corneli — 42.03°N, 0.83°EVallcarga — 42.03°N, 0.83°EUgod — 46.98°N, 17.28°EVrbovac Beds — 43.80°N, 22.08°ECollades de Basturs — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESamhan — 19.67°N, 57.52°ESamhan — 20.78°N, 57.82°ESamhan — 20.62°N, 58.20°EHabana — 22.00°N, 79.50°WCiolo Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.43°ECiolo Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.42°ECiolo Limestone — 39.84°N, 18.39°ECiolo Limestone — 39.86°N, 18.39°ETemazcal Limestone — 22.33°N, 100.49°WTemazcal Limestone — 22.40°N, 100.51°WTemazcal Limestone — 22.27°N, 100.67°WBey Daglari — 37.07°N, 30.22°EBey Daglari — 37.03°N, 30.17°ELokman — 40.63°N, 35.77°EGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.40°WGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.33°WTarbur — 31.58°N, 51.20°ETarbur — 31.72°N, 51.20°EEl Viejo — 10.60°N, 85.64°WEl Viejo — 10.94°N, 85.69°WEl Viejo — 10.81°N, 85.64°WEl Viejo — 10.21°N, 85.11°WEl Viejo — 10.39°N, 85.43°WAngostura — 16.73°N, 93.10°WAngostura — 16.85°N, 93.40°WAngostura — 16.78°N, 93.08°WCongost — 42.23°N, 0.93°ECongost — 42.03°N, 0.83°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.36°N, 35.74°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.40°N, 35.81°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.43°N, 35.85°ECardenas — 22.02°N, 99.63°WCardenas — 21.81°N, 99.75°WCardenas — 22.18°N, 100.95°WCardenas — 22.00°N, 99.65°WMontagut — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EMount Peace — 18.38°N, 78.13°WHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.52°ECalizas — 42.40°N, 0.78°W

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The named rock units Hippuritidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 822 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippuritidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hippuritidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

916 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 218 sites for Hippuritidae, 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

130 references

Each of the 1,205 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. 118 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 content2

Picture of Hippuritidae

Credit
Fernando Losada Rodríguez
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itRadiolitoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1848