Hertha
No picture of Hertha 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 Hertha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliometrinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Comatulida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Comatulida
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Comatulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Comatulida
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 25.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 21.7 Mya.
12 occurrences of Hertha 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
12 occurrences- Late Cretaceous67%
- Oligocene21%
- Miocene13%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hertha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hertha and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hertha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Applinocrinus cretaceus5 sites
- Chomataster acules5 sites
- Gauthieria pseudoradiata5 sites
- Lophidiaster pygmaeus5 sites
- Ophiomusium granulosum5 sites
- Trichaster ornatus5 sites
- Rautangaroa aotearoa4 sites
- Zelandimetra neozelandiae4 sites
- Amphiura plana3 sites
- Benthopectinidae3 sites
- Cardiaster granulosus3 sites
- Comaster meyerensis3 sites
- Cyclaster3 sites
- Diplodetus3 sites
- Echinocorys3 sites
- Goniasteridae3 sites
- Hemiaster3 sites
- Ophiacantha danica3 sites
- Ophiocoma senonensis3 sites
- Ophioderma substriatum3 sites
- Ophioscolex cretaceus3 sites
- Ophiosmilax alternatus3 sites
- Ophiura serrata3 sites
- Placometra laticirra3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Hertha, 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- New fossil crinoids (Articulata: Comatulida) from the Late Oligocene of the Pentland Hills and Hurstlea, South Canterbury, New Zealand4
- The echinoderms of the Rügen White Chalk (Maastrichtian, Germany)4
- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 2: Crinoids4
Each of the 12 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 Hertha 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 Hertha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hertha 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeliometrinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hagenow 1840