Hyperoblastus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyperoblastidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 4 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya375.2 Mya411.4 Mya371.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Hyperoblastus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

19 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

8 formations

Ludlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.86°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.68°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WLoogh — 50.24°N, 6.71°ESanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.75°WSanta Lucia — 42.85°N, 5.13°WVirgin Hills — 18.64°S, 126.07°EJunkerberg — 50.23°N, 6.50°ECürten — 50.52°N, 6.56°EFreilingen — 50.38°N, 6.70°E

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The named rock units Hyperoblastus 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.

Hyperoblastus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Hyperoblastus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Hyperoblastus, 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

7 references

Each of the 19 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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Hyperoblastus sp. · cmc:IP 37404

No picture of Hyperoblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itHyperoblastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fay 1961