Hemithiris

Hemithiris is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Hemithirididae.

Hemithiris

Erin McKittrick · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
HemithirididaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 41 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Hemithiris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

41 occurrences

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

19 formations

Taya — 39.72°N, 140.29°ELa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WJunicho — 36.85°N, 136.97°EQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WLate Pleistocene terrace — 43.12°N, 124.41°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WAinonai — 43.79°N, 143.74°EDaishaka — 40.76°N, 140.59°EWakimoto — 40.29°N, 140.08°EShibikawa — 39.97°N, 139.85°ENishiyama — 37.38°N, 138.95°ESugota — 39.35°N, 140.38°EAkaura — 37.04°N, 136.96°ESuenomatsuyama — 40.28°N, 141.30°ESukegawa — 36.60°N, 140.64°EGries Ranch — 48.03°N, 122.76°WPysht — 48.16°N, 123.90°W

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The named rock units Hemithiris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hemithiris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hemithiris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

290 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Hemithiris, 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

14 references

Each of the 41 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Hemithiris

Credit
Erin McKittrick
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHemithirididae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1847