Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima
No picture of Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima 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 Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Heliomera (Heliomeroides)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima 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
2 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
2 formations
- Kildare Limestone Formation1
- Keisley Limestone Formation · Dent Group1
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The named rock units Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Atractopyge1 site
- Atractopyge verrucosa1 site
- Carricka athleta1 site
- Ceraurinella intermedia1 site
- Cyphoniscus socialis1 site
- Dionide1 site
- Glaphurella1 site
- Hadromeros keisleyensis1 site
- Harpetidae1 site
- Isocolus1 site
- Orthoceras elongatocinctum1 site
- Prionocheilus obtusus1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus conformis1 site
- Scotoharpes1 site
- Sphaerexochus calvus1 site
- Telephina (Telephina) wegelini1 site
- Tiresias insculptus1 site
- Tretaspis1 site
- Trinodus tardus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima 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 Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliomera (Heliomeroides) novissima 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 itHeliomera (Heliomeroides) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dean 1971