Heptastylis oregonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeptastylisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heptastylis oregonensis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Heptastylis oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heptastylis oregonensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Heptastylis oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Distichophyllia norica3 sites
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis2 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa2 sites
- Heptastylis aquilae2 sites
- Spongiomorpha tenuis2 sites
- Amblysiphonella steinmanni1 site
- Anthostylis acanthophora1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Chondrocoenia paradoxa1 site
- Cidaroidea1 site
- Crassistella juvavica1 site
- Crassistella vesiculosa1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cuifastraea granulata1 site
- Cyathocoenia1 site
- Elysastraea profunda1 site
- Gablonzeria profunda1 site
- Hajarispongia whaleni1 site
- Kuhnastraea decussata1 site
- Kuhnastraea incrassata1 site
- Margarastraea pulchra1 site
- Meandrostylis grandiseptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heptastylis oregonensis, 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- Triassic Corals and Spongiomorphs from Hells Canyon, Wallowa Terrane, Oregon1
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America1
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America1
Each of the 3 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 Heptastylis oregonensis 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 Heptastylis oregonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heptastylis oregonensis 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 itHeptastylis through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1927