Hystriculina hystricula

Kamb, Alan; Haglund, W. M. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HystriculinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 264.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Hystriculina hystricula on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
10 occurrences- Carboniferous30%
- Permian70%
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
5 formations
- Foraker Limestone Formation · Council Grove Group5
- Red Eagle Limestone Formation · Council Grove Group2
- Falls City Limestone Formation1
- Foraker Limestome Formation1
- Bird Spring Formation1
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The named rock units Hystriculina hystricula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hystriculina hystricula and its relatives
PermianWhere Hystriculina hystricula and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Hustedia mormoni7 sites
- Crurithyris expansa6 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Derbyia5 sites
- Echinoidea5 sites
- Fusulinidae5 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari5 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer4 sites
- Composita subtilita3 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis3 sites
- Rhipidomella carbonaria3 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Dictyoclostus2 sites
- Juresania2 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus2 sites
- Wellerella delicatula2 sites
- Wellerella osagensis2 sites
- Wellerella truncata2 sites
- ? Lyttoniacean indet.1 site
- ? Martiniid indet.1 site
- ? Phrycodothyris cf. perplexa1 site
- Amphiscapha muricata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hystriculina hystricula, 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- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas5
- T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University4
- Preliminary report of the brachiopod fauna, Arrow Canyon section, southern Nevada, U.S.A.1
Each of the 10 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

Picture of Hystriculina hystricula
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kamb, Alan; Haglund, W. M.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hystriculina hystricula was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHystriculina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunbar and Condra 1932)