Huronia

Huronia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HuroniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 7 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya432.9 Mya472 Mya422 Mya

7 occurrences of Huronia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

6 formations

Lone Mountain Dolomite — 39.00°N, 112.00°WChasm Creek — 58.25°N, 94.57°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.80°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.43°N, 116.63°W

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The named rock units Huronia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Huronia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Huronia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Huronia, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Huronia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-SA
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

MorphoSource 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 itHuroniidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stokes 1824