Hiscobeccus arcticus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HiscobeccusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Hiscobeccus arcticus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Hiscobeccus arcticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hiscobeccus arcticus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hiscobeccus arcticus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Cyclospira3 sites
- Dalmanella sillimani3 sites
- Hesperorthis3 sites
- Parastrophina minor3 sites
- Plaesiomys subcircularis3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Strophomena3 sites
- Austinella2 sites
- Eotomaria robinsoni2 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa2 sites
- Holopea arctica2 sites
- Kokenospira costalis2 sites
- Nasutimena undulosa2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Plectorthis2 sites
- Receptaculites2 sites
- Resserella diminutiva2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Sowerbyella2 sites
- Trochonema2 sites
- Zygospira2 sites
- <Asaphid>1 site
- <Strophomenid>1 site
- Actinoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hiscobeccus arcticus, 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
3 references- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island4
- Ordovician megafauna, southern Baffin Island, Nunavat1
- Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin1
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. 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
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No picture of Hiscobeccus arcticus 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 Hiscobeccus arcticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hiscobeccus arcticus 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 itHiscobeccus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roy 1941)