Heikea rotunda
No picture of Heikea rotunda 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 Heikea rotunda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeikeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Heikea rotunda 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heikea rotunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heikea rotunda and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Heikea rotunda and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Ambonychinia corrugata1 site
- Amphilichas lineatus1 site
- Apianurus clevei1 site
- Cameroceras turrisoides1 site
- Charactoceras kallholnense1 site
- Christiania dalarnensis1 site
- Decoroproetus asellus1 site
- Encrinurus striatus1 site
- Eremiproetus agellus1 site
- Geisonoceras wegelini1 site
- Gorbyoceras alternestriatum1 site
- Gunnarella magnifica1 site
- Hadromeros clasonii1 site
- Hibbertia costatus1 site
- Holotrachelus punctillosus1 site
- Illaenus dalecarlicus1 site
- Illaenus linnarssoni1 site
- Isorthoceras suave1 site
- Isorthoceras wahlenbergi1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena)1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) bergstroemi1 site
- Leptaena (Ygdrasilomena) roomusoksi1 site
- Opsypharus nudus1 site
- Ordogeisonoceras foerstei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heikea rotunda, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Heikea rotunda 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 Heikea rotunda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heikea rotunda 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 itHeikea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Isberg 1934