Hemithecella expansa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemithecellaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Hemithecella expansa 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
7 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
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The named rock units Hemithecella expansa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemithecella expansa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hemithecella expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Ceratopea grandis2 sites
- Conocerina2 sites
- Conodia levicosta2 sites
- Dakeoceras2 sites
- Ectenoceras2 sites
- Finkelnburgia2 sites
- Gasconadia putilla2 sites
- Kirengella expansus2 sites
- Levisoceras2 sites
- Macluritella uniangulata2 sites
- Ophileta complanata2 sites
- Ozarkispira subelevata2 sites
- Proplina cornutaformis2 sites
- Robustum phallerium2 sites
- Sinuopea2 sites
- Tetralobula2 sites
- Chelodes acuminata1 site
- Clarkoceras1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Ecculiomphalus1 site
- Gasconadeoconus ponderosa1 site
- Gasconadeoconus waynesvillensis1 site
- Hemithecella abrupta1 site
- Hemithecella quinquelites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Hemithecella expansa, 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
3 references- Some molluscan problematica from the Upper Cambrian - Lower Ordovician of the Ozark uplift5
- The oldest known tentaculitid: from the Chepultepec Limestone (Canadian) of Virginia1
- Geology of the Appalachian Valley in Virginia. Part I – Geological text and illustrations1
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
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No picture of Hemithecella expansa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hemithecella expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itHemithecella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butts 1941