Hertzina

Hertzina is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Furnishinidae. Fossils can be found in the Wheeler Shale Cambrian fossil locality in Utah, United States.

No picture of Hertzina 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 Hertzina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaconodontidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 24 of 26 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 26 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 1 occurrence529–527 Mya — about 2 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 2 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 2 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 2 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 2 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 2 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 2 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 2 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525.5 Mya486.4 Mya540 Mya476 Mya

26 occurrences of Hertzina on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

26 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

15 formations

Lower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.58°N, 2.67°WFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WManykay — 70.57°N, 103.57°EManykay — 70.67°N, 103.00°ETinu — 17.47°N, 97.23°WDengying — 32.35°N, 106.82°ECuslett — 45.77°N, 60.29°WBrigus — 45.77°N, 60.29°WYangjiaping — 29.22°N, 110.85°EHetang — 28.73°N, 118.62°EMaidiping — 29.50°N, 103.40°EYanjiahe — 30.78°N, 111.35°EAftenstjernesø — 81.57°N, 42.92°WWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 40.40°W

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

Hertzina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hertzina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Hertzina, 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

16 references

Each of the 26 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Hertzina 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 Hertzina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hertzina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itParaconodontida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mueller 1959