Heimia
No picture of Heimia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Heimia itself, so it was not used. 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 Heimia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PostepithyrididaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
7 occurrences of Heimia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Heimia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heimia and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Heimia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Pholadomya lirata2 sites
- Acanthocythere1 site
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Africogryphaea1 site
- Amphiastrea gibberosa1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Antiptychina1 site
- Arabatia africana1 site
- Arcomytilus asper1 site
- Arcomytilus laitmairensis1 site
- Astrocoenia newtoni1 site
- Astrocoenia somalica1 site
- Avonothyris jordanensis1 site
- Bihenithyris weiri1 site
- Bulla macfadyeni1 site
- Capillirhynchia1 site
- Caucasella1 site
- Ceratomya pittieri1 site
- Ceratomya telluris1 site
- Ceratomya wimmisensis1 site
- Ceratomyopsis1 site
- Ceratomyopsis arabica1 site
- Ceratomyopsis somaliensis1 site
- Ceratomyopsis striata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Heimia, 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
5 references- The Brachiopoda of the Namyau Beds, Northern Shan States, Burma3
- Les brachiopodes jurassiques moyens de la bordure vivaro-cévenole (Bassin du Sud-Est, France)1
- Eligmus jordanensis, a new pelecypod species from the Upper Bathonian surface section at the King Talal's Dam area in central Jordan1
- Jurassic Brachiopoda1
- Mesozoic Brachiopoda and Mollusca from Mombasa1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Heimia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Heimia itself, so it was not used.
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 Heimia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heimia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPostepithyrididae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haas 1890