Hypsiptycha anticostiensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HypsiptychaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 30 of 30 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 30 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449.6 Mya445.2 Mya451.5 Mya442.6 Mya

30 occurrences of Hypsiptycha anticostiensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

30 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

12 formations

Caution Creek — 57.97°N, 94.87°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WCaution Creek — 55.93°N, 92.23°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.20°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.78°WVaureal — 49.82°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WVaureal — 49.77°N, 63.65°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.83°WEllis Bay — 49.74°N, 63.89°WEllis Bay — 49.83°N, 64.34°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKilley Bridge — 54.59°N, 6.90°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.74°N, 107.73°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.44°N, 106.92°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WBighorn — 44.74°N, 107.73°WBighorn — 44.65°N, 107.53°WEly Springs — 37.50°N, 115.50°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.67°WHigh Mains — 55.29°N, 4.73°WSurprise Creek — 58.00°N, 95.11°W

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

Hypsiptycha anticostiensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Hypsiptycha anticostiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

295 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Hypsiptycha anticostiensis, 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

14 references

Each of the 30 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. 2 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 Hypsiptycha anticostiensis 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 Hypsiptycha anticostiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hypsiptycha anticostiensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itHypsiptycha through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1862)