Halysites regularis

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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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Halysites regularis 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Halysites regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Halysites regularis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Halysites regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Catenipora maxima2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Mesofavosites obliquus2 sites
- Pentamerus (Pentamerus) oblongus2 sites
- Actinodictyon suevicum1 site
- Altaja1 site
- Aphyllum1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Aulopora assueta1 site
- Aulopora celsa1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
- Caliopora sp.1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Catenipora elegans1 site
- Catenipora panga1 site
- Catenipora vespertina1 site
- Cladopora1 site
- Clathrodictyon delicatulum1 site
- Clathrodictyon variolare1 site
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata1 site
- Ecclimadictyon fastigiatum1 site
- Entelophyllum1 site
- Eospirifer radiatus1 site
- Favosites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Halysites regularis, 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
2 references- Kompleksy rannesiluriyskikh tabulyatomorfnykh korallov zapadnogo Sayana i ikh ekologicheskiye osobennosti [Early Silurian tabulate coral assemblages of the western Sayan region and their ecologic characteristics]2
- The Incommunicate Tabulata of Estonia1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Halysites regularis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Halysites regularis 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 itHalysites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer-Benzon 1871