Huenella
Searched as Huenella abnormis. The Paleobiology Database treats Huenella as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HuenellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Huenella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Huenella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Huenella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Huenella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Eocrinoidea3 sites
- Billingsella perfecta2 sites
- Eoorthis remnicha2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Orygmaspis contracta2 sites
- Taenicephalus2 sites
- Wilbernia2 sites
- Acrotreta1 site
- Agnostidae1 site
- Alokistocarella1 site
- Angulotreta1 site
- Angulotreta tetonensis1 site
- Archinacella wanwanensis1 site
- Billingsella1 site
- Billingsella plicatella1 site
- Bolaspidella1 site
- Bolaspidella convexa1 site
- Bovicornellum1 site
- Brunswickia quadrata1 site
- Burenoceras1 site
- Bynumia1 site
- Catillicephala lata1 site
- Catillicephala rotunda1 site
- Ceratreta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Huenella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Huenella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Huenella 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 itHuenellinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908