Hexactinella prisca
No picture of Hexactinella prisca 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 Hexactinella prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HexactinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hexactinella prisca on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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- Middle Jurassic100%
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 Hexactinella prisca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hexactinella prisca and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Hexactinella prisca and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Actinostreon1 site
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Arcomytilus laitmairensis1 site
- Atreta1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Buratina1 site
- Cnemidiastrum1 site
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cryptorhynchia pulcherrima1 site
- Cycloserpula1 site
- Dimorpharaea stellans1 site
- Dorsoserpula1 site
- Eligmus rollandi1 site
- Flabellothyris dichotoma1 site
- Gryphaea (Bilobissa)1 site
- Hyalotragos patella1 site
- Isastrea propinqua1 site
- Jumarella astrorhiza1 site
- Kutchithyris1 site
- Kutchithyris acutiplicata1 site
- Kutchithyris katametopa1 site
- Kutchithyris planiconvexa1 site
- Kutchithyris propinqua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hexactinella prisca, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hexactinella prisca 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 Hexactinella prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hexactinella prisca 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 itHexactinella through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mehl and Fürsich 1997