Hercorhyncus
Searched as Hercorhyncus hollandi. The Paleobiology Database treats Hercorhyncus as the accepted name.
No picture of Hercorhyncus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Hercorhyncus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hercorhyncus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Hercorhyncus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hercorhyncus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hercorhyncus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
826 taxa- Euspira rectilabrum55 sites
- Crassatella vadosa42 sites
- Turritella trilira42 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria41 sites
- Anomia argentaria40 sites
- Cymbophora38 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata36 sites
- Nuculana36 sites
- Serpula36 sites
- Turritella vertebroides35 sites
- Veniella conradi35 sites
- Syncyclonema34 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis32 sites
- Cyprimeria32 sites
- Granocardium32 sites
- Crenella serica31 sites
- Corbula29 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica28 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta28 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis28 sites
- Nucula percrassa28 sites
- Turritella28 sites
- Gabbigonia eufaulensis26 sites
- Vetericardiella26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Hercorhyncus, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Hercorhyncus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Hercorhyncus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hercorhyncus 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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.