Hormotoma gigantea

Hormotoma gigantea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HormotomaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Hormotoma
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hormotoma
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Hormotoma
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At most 7.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451.5 Mya442.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Hormotoma gigantea 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

5 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

2 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WWhite Head — 48.50°N, 64.23°W

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The named rock units Hormotoma gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hormotoma gigantea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Hormotoma gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hormotoma gigantea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Hormotoma gigantea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hormotoma gigantea 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 itHormotoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1857)