Harpidium
No picture of Harpidium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Harpidium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PentameridaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
60 occurrences of Harpidium 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
60 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
14 formations
- Racine Formation11
- Hopkinton Formation8
- Read Bay Formation6
- Whittaker Formation3
- Ningqiang Formation2
- Gower Formation2
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The named rock units Harpidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Harpidium and its relatives
SilurianWhere Harpidium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
485 taxa- Atrypa17 sites
- Howellella14 sites
- Gastropoda13 sites
- Halysites13 sites
- Isorthis13 sites
- Lissatrypa13 sites
- Dalejina12 sites
- Favosites12 sites
- Bryozoa11 sites
- Conchidium11 sites
- Dimerocrinites11 sites
- Dinobolus11 sites
- Nautiloidea11 sites
- Atrypoidea10 sites
- Crotalocrinites10 sites
- Dolerorthis10 sites
- Merista10 sites
- Meristina10 sites
- Whitfieldella10 sites
- Brooksina9 sites
- Bumastus9 sites
- Caryocrinites9 sites
- Clorinda9 sites
- Protomegastrophia9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Harpidium, 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
21 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America11
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region8
- Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories6
- Evolution of Silurian Pentamerid Communities in Wisconsin5
- Silurian brachiopod and related benthic communities from carbonate platform and mound environments of Iowa and surrounding areas4
- Upper Silurian brachiopods from southeastern Alaska4
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera3
- The Silurian (Wenlockian) reef fauna of Southeastern Wisconsin3
- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)2
- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example2
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska2
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian1
Each of the 60 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. 9 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 Harpidium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Harpidium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Harpidium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itPentameridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kirk 1925