Halysites catenularia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HalysitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
33 occurrences of Halysites catenularia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
33 occurrences- Ordovician12%
- Silurian88%
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
15 formations
- Cedar Lake Dolomite Formation · Interlake Group11
- East Arm Dolomite Formation · Interlake Group5
- Motol Formation2
- Kopanina Formation2
- Wabash Formation1
- Amadjuak Formation1
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The named rock units Halysites catenularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Halysites catenularia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Halysites catenularia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
354 taxa- Clathrodictyon11 sites
- Heliolites10 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus9 sites
- Asthenophyllum8 sites
- Camarotoechia7 sites
- Favosites7 sites
- Cystiphyllum6 sites
- Paleofavosites transiens6 sites
- Amplexoides5 sites
- Clintonella5 sites
- Favosites hisingeri5 sites
- Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera5 sites
- Neozaphrentis5 sites
- Atrypa4 sites
- Bumastus4 sites
- Cyathophyllum4 sites
- Dihogmochilina4 sites
- Ecclimadictyon fastigiatum4 sites
- Favosites favosus4 sites
- Leperditia4 sites
- Meristina4 sites
- Pycnostylus4 sites
- Stromatopora4 sites
- Alveolites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Halysites catenularia, 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
10 references- Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba18
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia4
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island3
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé2
- Upper Silurian reefal facies of the Memphremagog - Marbleton area, Eastern Townships, Quebec Appalachians1
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
- Paleoecology and Petrology of Pipe Creek Jr. Reef (Niagaran-Cayugan), Grant County, Indiana1
- Silurian Conodonts from Death Valley, California: Preliminary Report1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York1
- Geology of Anticosti Island1
Each of the 33 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 content2

Picture of Halysites catenularia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itHalysites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)