Hyolithina

No picture of Hyolithina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hyolithina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesDevonian508–505 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences505–502 Mya — about 1 occurrence502–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–495 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–425 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497 Mya413.02 Mya508 Mya409 Mya

6 occurrences of Hyolithina 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

6 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

4 formations

Motol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°ETröbitz — 51.62°N, 13.35°EDvorce-Prokop — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDelitzsch — 51.62°N, 13.35°E

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

Hyolithina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hyolithina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hyolithina, 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

4 references

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 Hyolithina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hyolithina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itHyolithida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mathew 1899