Hedstroemina

Not Hedstroemina. This is Hedstroemina Bancroft, 1929, a relative — both are Rafinesquinidae.
Männil, Ralf · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- RafinesquininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
62 occurrences of Hedstroemina 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
62 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
32 formations
- Hirmuse Formation5
- Seyahou Formation4
- Arnestad Formation3
- Porto de Santa Anna Formation · Venda Nova Group2
- Ellis Bay Formation2
- Acton Scott Formation2
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The named rock units Hedstroemina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hedstroemina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hedstroemina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
487 taxa- Dalmanella14 sites
- Howellites wesenbergensis13 sites
- Platystrophia13 sites
- Nicolella12 sites
- Onniella12 sites
- Rhactorthis12 sites
- Leptaena11 sites
- Paracraniops11 sites
- Porambonites10 sites
- Sowerbyella10 sites
- Chasmops9 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) tenera9 sites
- Platystrophia crassoplicata8 sites
- Rafinesquina8 sites
- Triplesia8 sites
- Kjerulfina7 sites
- Strophomena7 sites
- Dolerorthis6 sites
- Leptestiina6 sites
- Oandumena fluviatilis6 sites
- Oanduporella reticulata6 sites
- Sampo6 sites
- Sinuites6 sites
- Skenidioides6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Hedstroemina, 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
26 references- Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderland6
- Evolution, succession & replacement in the type Caradoc (Ordovician) benthic faunas of England6
- The geology of the Baltic Republics5
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway. 8. Brachiopods of the Suborder Strophomenida5
- Late Ordovician and early Silurian brachiopods from the Zagros Ranges, Iran4
- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia4
- The Stratigraphy and Structure of Ordovician Rocks of the South - East Part of the Baltic Basin (Druksiu Area)3
- The Subdivision of the Ordovician in the Berzini boring (South-East Latvia)3
- New brachiopods from the Jõhvi, Keila and Vasalemma stages3
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada2
- Unpublished notes on Norwegian Ordovician fossil occurrences compiled from various resources, primarily from the series of papers on taxa of the Middle Ordovician on the Oslo-Asker District, published in Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift2
- Brachiopodes articules de la coupe de l'ile de Rosan (Crozon, Finistere); formation des tufs et calcaires de Rosan (Caradoc-Ashgill)2
Each of the 62 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. 14 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 Hedstroemina Bancroft, 1929
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Männil, Ralf
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Hedstroemina was found in Sketchfab.
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 itRafinesquininae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bancroft 1929)