Hypsiptycha occidens
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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 most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Hypsiptycha occidens 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
15 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Stony Mountain Formation7
- Beaverfoot Formation4
- Red River Formation2
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group2
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The named rock units Hypsiptycha occidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypsiptycha occidens and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hypsiptycha occidens and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Dinorthis occidentalis10 sites
- Diceromyonia storeya8 sites
- Hiscobeccus gigas7 sites
- Oepikina limbrata7 sites
- Nasutimena fluctuosa6 sites
- Megamyonia nitens5 sites
- Strophomena vetusta5 sites
- Eochonetes clarksvillensis2 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax2 sites
- Hypsiptycha neenah2 sites
- Catazyga1 site
- Eostrophonella semiovalis1 site
- Gnamptorhynchos1 site
- Gnamptorhynchos manitobensis1 site
- Hiscobeccus kananaskia1 site
- Hypsiptycha anticostiensis1 site
- Kjaerina hartae1 site
- Lepidocyclus1 site
- Lepidocyclus erectus1 site
- Lepidocyclus laddi1 site
- Nasutimena undulosa1 site
- Oepikina lata1 site
- Parastrophinella cirrita1 site
- Platystrophia regularis globata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Hypsiptycha occidens, 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
3 references- Late Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Red River and Stony Mountain Formations, Southern Manitoba9
- Rhynchonellid Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian Beaverfoot and Nonda Formations of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia4
- Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario2
Each of the 15 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
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No picture of Hypsiptycha occidens 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 Hypsiptycha occidens, 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 itHypsiptycha through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1926)