Hebertella

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectorthidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
817 occurrences of Hebertella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
817 occurrences- Ordovician100%
- Silurianunder 1%
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
69 formations
- Lexington Limestone Formation73
- Whitewater Formation · Richmondian Group68
- Liberty Formation · Richmondian Group61
- Catheys Formation45
- Waynesville Formation · Richmondian Group39
- Bellevue Formation27
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The named rock units Hebertella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 114 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hebertella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hebertella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
758 taxa- Rafinesquina88 sites
- Platystrophia80 sites
- Zygospira modesta70 sites
- Zygospira67 sites
- Trepostomata65 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata51 sites
- Strophomena48 sites
- Isotelus46 sites
- Ambonychia43 sites
- Homotrypa42 sites
- Constellaria41 sites
- Hallopora41 sites
- Lophospira41 sites
- Bryozoa38 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra35 sites
- Flexicalymene35 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax34 sites
- Eridotrypa33 sites
- Escharopora33 sites
- Rhynchotrema increbescens33 sites
- Rhynchotrema30 sites
- Dalmanella29 sites
- Prasopora28 sites
- Liospira27 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 751 sites for Hebertella, 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
53 references- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA289
- GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella109
- Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States68
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia68
- Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA38
- Ecosystem structure and stability: middle Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA34
- Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction29
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky20
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee19
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec18
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region11
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan11
Each of the 817 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. 41 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 content2

Picture of Hebertella
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itPlectorthidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall and Clarke 1892)