Hesslerides bufo

Hesslerides bufo (Meek & Worthen, 1870), a relative of Hesslerides bufo — not Hesslerides bufo itself

Not Hesslerides bufo. This is Hesslerides bufo (Meek & Worthen, 1870), a relative — both are Proetidae.

Bassett, D.A. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HessleridesPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 335.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 27 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence340–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347.2 Mya334.9 Mya

27 occurrences of Hesslerides bufo on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

27 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

2 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°W

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The named rock units Hesslerides bufo 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.

Hesslerides bufo and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Hesslerides bufo and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Hesslerides bufo, 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

Each of the 27 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Hesslerides bufo (Meek & Worthen, 1870)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bassett, D.A.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itHesslerides through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1870)