Hemitoechia undvaensis

Rubel, Madis · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HemitoechiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 433.5 Mya and 431.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Hemitoechia undvaensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Hemitoechia undvaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemitoechia undvaensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Hemitoechia undvaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Eospirifer radiatus3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Whitfieldella3 sites
- Angopora tenuicula2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)2 sites
- Favosites forbesi2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Meristina podolica2 sites
- Mesofavosites secundus2 sites
- Nucleospira pisum2 sites
- Ravozetina2 sites
- Rhynchotreta cuneata2 sites
- Rhynchotreta gracilis2 sites
- Salopina tubulata2 sites
- Stegerhynchus estonicus2 sites
- Subalveolites sokolovi2 sites
- Syringolites kunthianus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hemitoechia undvaensis, 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- New Species of Silurian Rhynchonelloid Species of Estonia3
- Distribution of Wenlock Brachiopods in the Suuriku Section, Estonia2
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 Hemitoechia undvaensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rubel, Madis
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Hemitoechia undvaensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itHemitoechia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rubel 1977