Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemisphaerocoryphePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Hemisphaerocoryphe
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.9 Mya and 451.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata 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
10 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
5 formations
- Kullsberg Limestone Formation4
- Kullsberg Formation3
- Macrourus Limestone Formation1
- Freberga Formation1
- Macrourus Formation1
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The named rock units Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Parillaenus fallax6 sites
- Illaenus gigas5 sites
- Platylichas lingua4 sites
- Prionocheilus foveolatum4 sites
- Caryocystites lagenalis3 sites
- Cleionychia primitiva3 sites
- Furudaloceras tomtei3 sites
- Ordogeisonoceras tartuensis3 sites
- Platylichas latus3 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus granulatus3 sites
- Sphaerexochus hisingeri3 sites
- Ambonychinia cylindrica2 sites
- Bucania gracillima2 sites
- Cameroceras2 sites
- Ceraurus latifrons2 sites
- Cornucrinus mirus2 sites
- Discoceras amtjaernense2 sites
- Haplosphaeronis oblonga2 sites
- Hoeloceras muroni2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus wimani2 sites
- Isorthoceras2 sites
- Isorthoceras nikwis2 sites
- Isorthoceras sylphide2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata, 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 10 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 Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHemisphaerocoryphe through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)