Halorella

Halorella is an extinct genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Halorellidae.

Halorella

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
HalorellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 36 of 36 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–228 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 2 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya205.7 Mya242.3 Mya200.6 Mya

36 occurrences of Halorella on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

36 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

11 formations

Kizidjilginskii — 37.62°N, 74.86°EFődolomit — 47.55°N, 18.99°ELanashan — 30.18°N, 99.21°ELanashan — 31.16°N, 97.94°EHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°EBleskovy pramen — 48.65°N, 20.67°EDachstein — 47.59°N, 15.19°EVester — 44.15°N, 119.40°WQugasi — 30.32°N, 99.35°EUjlaki-hegy Dolomite — 47.55°N, 18.99°EShizhongshan — 26.58°N, 99.68°ESinwa — 59.29°N, 133.94°W

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The named rock units Halorella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Halorella and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Halorella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Halorella, 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 36 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

Media content1

Picture of Halorella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHalorellidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bittner 1884