Hypseloconus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HypseloconidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Kiringellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Kiringellida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Kiringellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 23 of 34 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 11 of 34 occurrencesOrdovician527–525 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525–522 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–501 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 4 occurrences490–487 Mya — about 7 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521 Mya461.1 Mya527 Mya457 Mya

34 occurrences of Hypseloconus 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

34 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

18 formations

Pilgrim — 46.01°N, 112.54°WPilgrim — 45.93°N, 111.48°WFranconia — 44.52°N, 89.57°WFranconia — 45.40°N, 92.66°WEminence — 37.97°N, 91.35°WEminence — 37.64°N, 91.12°WGasconade — 37.90°N, 91.17°WGasconade — 37.97°N, 91.35°WBonneterre — 37.82°N, 90.68°WHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WPotosi — 38.58°N, 90.68°WPotosi — 37.85°N, 90.62°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WPacoota — 23.65°S, 134.43°EPacoota — 23.79°S, 134.78°ESkeels Corner Slate — 44.78°N, 73.11°WTrempealeau — 44.52°N, 89.57°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EDuNoir — 43.29°N, 109.83°WRoubidoux — 36.98°N, 91.50°WDry Creek Shale — 42.60°N, 109.20°WTanyard — 31.07°N, 98.70°WUst’kundat — 55.52°N, 88.02°EOgof Hen — 51.82°N, 4.37°W

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The named rock units Hypseloconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hypseloconus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hypseloconus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Hypseloconus, 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

19 references

Each of the 34 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Hypseloconus 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 Hypseloconus, 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 itHypseloconidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berkey 1898