Hyperoblastus acutangulus

Hyperoblastus acutangulus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyperoblastusPBDB
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 most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388.4 Mya381.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Hyperoblastus acutangulus 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

2 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

1 formation

Loogh — 50.24°N, 6.71°E

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

Hyperoblastus acutangulus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Hyperoblastus acutangulus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hyperoblastus acutangulus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Hyperoblastus acutangulus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
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 itHyperoblastus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schultze 1866)