Hessonia piligera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HessoniaPBDB
- Diet
- parasite, carnivorePBDB, for Platyceratoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Platyceratoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Hessonia piligera on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
9 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Hessonia piligera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hessonia piligera and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hessonia piligera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Bellerophon lineatus8 sites
- Philoxene laevis6 sites
- Devonorhineoderma lonsdalei5 sites
- Euryzone delphinuloides5 sites
- Murchisonia defrancei5 sites
- Murchisonia sandbergeri5 sites
- Plagiothyra purpurea5 sites
- Serpulospira serpula5 sites
- Clathronema reticulata4 sites
- Odontomaria semiplicata4 sites
- Paffrathopsis lirata4 sites
- Plagiothyra tubericosta4 sites
- Platyloron bischoffii4 sites
- Straparollus planus4 sites
- Agnesia nodulosa3 sites
- Astralites sublimbatus3 sites
- Champernownia wagneri3 sites
- Delphinuella subarmata3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma beaumonti3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma orbignyana3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma tricincta3 sites
- Lotzia schaeferkalki3 sites
- Murchisonia bilineata3 sites
- Nerrhena aequistriata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Hessonia piligera, 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- Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)6
- Gastropoda from the Givetian “Massenkalk” of Schwelm and Hohenlimburg (Saureland, Rheinsiches Schiefergebirge, Germany)2
- Die Goniatiten-Kalke von Adorf in Waldeck1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Hessonia piligera 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 Hessonia piligera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hessonia piligera 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.
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What may have been alongside itHessonia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger and Sandberger 1855)