Hydroconus
Korde, K.B. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HydroconozoaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Hydroconus 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
5 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 Hydroconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hydroconus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hydroconus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Archaeolynthus5 sites
- Archaeopharetra5 sites
- Batinevia5 sites
- Cambrocyathellus5 sites
- Girphanovella5 sites
- Nochoroicyathus5 sites
- Okulitchicyathus5 sites
- <Chancelloriid>4 sites
- <Cibricyathid>4 sites
- Dodecaactinella4 sites
- Dokidocyathus4 sites
- Edelsteinia4 sites
- Epiphyton4 sites
- Khasaktia4 sites
- Rackovskaia sp.4 sites
- Robustocyathellus4 sites
- Rotundocyathus4 sites
- Tubomorphophyton4 sites
- Tumuliolynthus4 sites
- Ajacicyathus3 sites
- Alataucyathus jaroschevitschi3 sites
- Dictyocyathus3 sites
- Ladaecyathus3 sites
- Nochoroicyathus howelli3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hydroconus, 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
5 references- Early Cambrian bioconstructions in the Zavkhan Basin of western Mongolia2
- Early Cambrian bioconstruction in the Zavkhan Basin of western Mongolia2
- The ecology of Lower Cambrian buildups from Zuune Arts, Mongolia: implications for early metazoan reef evolution1
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. 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 Hydroconus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Korde, K.B.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHydroconozoa through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.