Hamptoniidae

No picture of Hamptoniidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hamptoniidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtomonaxonidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 469.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 30 of 33 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 3 of 33 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences519–516 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences516–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 9 occurrences507–504 Mya — about 6 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 3 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 3 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 Mya477.1 Mya540 Mya468 Mya

33 occurrences of Hamptoniidae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

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

10 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WBurgess Shale — 51.05°N, 115.85°WMarjum — 39.22°N, 113.33°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WFezouata — 30.52°N, 5.93°WFezouata — 30.50°N, 5.85°WWheeler — 39.50°N, 112.99°WDuchesnay — 51.10°N, 115.95°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYu'anshan — 24.87°N, 102.83°EMarsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°EBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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The named rock units Hamptoniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hamptoniidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hamptoniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

484 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Hamptoniidae, 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

14 references

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. 2 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

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No picture of Hamptoniidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hamptoniidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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

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What may have been alongside itProtomonaxonida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laubenfels 1955