Hebertella maria

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HebertellaPBDB
- 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 8.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
40 occurrences of Hebertella maria 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
40 occurrences- Ordovician94%
- Silurian6%
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
4 formations
- Vaureal Formation20
- Ellis Bay Formation · Jolliet Group17
- Vauréal Formation · Anticosti Group2
- Bucke Formation1
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The named rock units Hebertella maria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hebertella maria and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hebertella maria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Onniella tricapitata20 sites
- Eochonetes glabra19 sites
- Leptaena quadrilatera18 sites
- Plaesiomys anticostiensis18 sites
- Mendacella uberis17 sites
- Coolinia gamachiana15 sites
- Eospirigerina15 sites
- Hindella umbonata14 sites
- Barbarorthis laurentina13 sites
- Sowerbyella (Eochonetes)10 sites
- Vinlandostrophia regularis9 sites
- Aulacera6 sites
- Rhynchotrema nutrix6 sites
- Vellamo diversa5 sites
- Aphanomena planoconvexa4 sites
- Craniops4 sites
- Hindella4 sites
- Hypsiptycha anticostiensis4 sites
- Parastrophinella reversa4 sites
- Retrorsirostra carleyi4 sites
- Hesperorthis pyramidalis3 sites
- Strophomena3 sites
- Archeochonetes muirwoodae2 sites
- Eostrophonella semiovalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Hebertella maria, 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
6 references- Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction29
- Anticosti Island, Québec6
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada2
- Ordovician and Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Anticosti Island: traject across the Ordovician-Silurian (O-S) boundary1
- Geology of Anticosti Island1
- The Palaeozoic Outlier of Lake Timiskaming, Ontario and Quebec1
Each of the 40 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. 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 Hebertella maria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hebertella maria 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 itHebertella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1862)