Halysitidae

Halysitidae is an extinct family of tabulate corals.

Halysitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HalysitidaPBDB
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 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 881 occurrencesOrdovician — about 331 of 881 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 544 of 881 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 881 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 881 occurrences492–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–482 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences478–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–455 Mya — about 20 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 46 occurrences451–446 Mya — about 174 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 116 occurrences442–437 Mya — about 132 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 105 occurrences433–428 Mya — about 147 occurrences428–424 Mya — about 98 occurrences424–419 Mya — about 30 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences415–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences379–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.3 Mya393.47 Mya492 Mya356 Mya

881 occurrences of Halysitidae 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

881 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

216 formations

Baraniy — 63.40°N, 136.68°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°EPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WSlite — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESlite — 57.93°N, 19.17°ESlite — 57.27°N, 17.97°ESlite — 57.77°N, 19.02°ESlite — 57.68°N, 18.78°ESlite — 57.77°N, 18.78°ESlite — 57.73°N, 18.47°ESlite — 57.63°N, 18.38°ESlite — 57.47°N, 18.18°ESlite — 57.52°N, 18.43°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 40.00°N, 97.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.15°N, 90.68°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.80°N, 18.50°EBad Cache Rapids — 66.92°N, 84.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.78°N, 83.90°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.54°N, 81.53°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.38°N, 82.31°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.86°N, 82.35°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.25°WKuranakh — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKuranakh — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKuranakh — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKuranakh — 62.85°N, 138.15°ECedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 100.30°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 100.00°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.30°N, 100.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 50.70°N, 98.03°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WSecond Value — 31.85°N, 106.48°WSecond Value — 32.97°N, 106.53°WWest Point — 48.17°N, 65.83°WWest Point — 48.18°N, 64.98°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 47.32°N, 70.57°WBecscie — 49.70°N, 63.99°WBecscie — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBrassfield — 39.81°N, 83.99°WBrassfield — 41.13°N, 84.23°WBrassfield — 38.14°N, 85.53°WBrassfield — 37.72°N, 83.98°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WNingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.66°N, 105.96°ENingqiang — 32.83°N, 106.29°ENingqiang — 33.05°N, 106.65°EWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WWhittaker — 63.17°N, 127.97°WWhittaker — 62.70°N, 127.93°WTsagaan Del — 46.41°N, 100.26°EKõrgessaare — 59.17°N, 24.75°EKõrgessaare — 58.95°N, 22.43°EKõrgessaare — 58.98°N, 22.81°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.61°ETamsalu — 58.59°N, 26.34°ETamsalu — 58.39°N, 24.50°ETamsalu — 58.96°N, 24.07°ETamsalu — 58.95°N, 24.56°ETamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°ETamsalu — 59.16°N, 26.09°ETamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°ELower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°ELower Visby — 57.83°N, 18.57°ELower Visby — 57.63°N, 18.28°ECaution Creek — 57.97°N, 94.87°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.67°WChasm Creek — 58.13°N, 94.77°WChasm Creek — 58.25°N, 94.57°WBeiguoshan — 35.00°N, 107.00°EBeiguoshan — 36.00°N, 106.00°EBeiguoshan — 36.21°N, 106.61°EHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WZebra Cliffs — 82.73°N, 76.68°WZebra Cliffs — 82.75°N, 76.90°WZebra Cliffs — 82.71°N, 75.50°WZebra Cliffs — 82.74°N, 76.80°WZebra Cliffs — 82.55°N, 75.57°W

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The named rock units Halysitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 192 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 206 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Halysitidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Halysitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,686 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 558 sites for Halysitidae, and this reads 240 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

179 references

Each of the 881 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. 167 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 Halysitidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849