Hercochitina

No picture of Hercochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hercochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhizopodeaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 20 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 20 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445.5 Mya – 445.2 Mya453.3 Mya442.6 Mya

20 occurrences of Hercochitina 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

20 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

5 formations

Vaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WVaureal — 49.31°N, 61.84°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WEllis Bay — 49.31°N, 61.84°WWhirlpool — 43.12°N, 79.05°WPower Glen — 43.12°N, 79.05°W

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The named rock units Hercochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hercochitina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Hercochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hercochitina, 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

4 references

Each of the 20 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

Media content0

No picture of Hercochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hercochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Hercochitina 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 itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.