Hemilepton nitidum
Edward Forbes (1815–1854), Sylvanus Hanley (1819-1899) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- Erycina (Hemilepton)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Erycina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Erycina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Erycina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
5 occurrences of Hemilepton nitidum on record. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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 the same rock
115 taxa- Abra alba4 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Astarte4 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis4 sites
- Cardium4 sites
- Cerastoderma edule4 sites
- Heteranomia squamula4 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis4 sites
- Mya4 sites
- Mytilus edulis4 sites
- Nucella lapillus4 sites
- Spisula4 sites
- Tellinidae4 sites
- Timoclea ovata4 sites
- Yoldia4 sites
- Abra3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Clathrus3 sites
- Donax vittatus3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Gibbula3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Hydrobia3 sites
- Littorina3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hemilepton nitidum, 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
2 references- Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk4
- Paleobiology from Museum collections: comparing historical and novel data on Upper Miocene molluscs of the Livorno Hills1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Hemilepton nitidum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Edward Forbes (1815–1854), Sylvanus Hanley (1819-1899)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hemilepton nitidum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itErycina (Hemilepton) through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Turton 1822)