Hemithecella quinquelites
No picture of Hemithecella quinquelites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Hemithecella quinquelites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemithecellaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hemithecella quinquelites 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hemithecella quinquelites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemithecella quinquelites and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hemithecella quinquelites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Chelodes acuminata1 site
- Conodia levicosta1 site
- Hemithecella expansa1 site
- Hypeloconus recurvus1 site
- Kirengella expansus1 site
- Proplina cornutaformis1 site
- Proplina meramecensis1 site
- Proplina sibelius1 site
- Robustum nodum1 site
- Robustum phallerium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hemithecella quinquelites, 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 1 occurrence 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 Hemithecella quinquelites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hemithecella quinquelites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hemithecella quinquelites 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.
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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. Stinchcomb and Darrough 1995