Hilberia

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 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
- ChlamydinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
12 occurrences of Hilberia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Vejle Fjord Formation4
- Branden Clay Formation4
- Bashibulake Formation2
- Neerrepen Sands Formation1
- Brejning Formation1
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The named rock units Hilberia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hilberia and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Hilberia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Palliolum3 sites
- Barbatia (Acar) dentiens2 sites
- Bathyarca2 sites
- Glossus2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Limopsis (Pectunculina) retifera2 sites
- Parvicardium2 sites
- Poromya2 sites
- Saccella westendorpi2 sites
- Teredinidae2 sites
- Varicorbula gibba2 sites
- Abra (Abra) bosqueti1 site
- Acamptogenotia1 site
- Achomosphaera1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Admetula1 site
- Amblyacrum roemeri1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Ancistrosyrinx volgeri1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Anomia (Anomia) ephippium1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Aporrhais speciosa1 site
- Aquilofusus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hilberia, 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
5 references- The molluscan fauna of the late Oligocene Branden Clay, Denmark6
- Paleogene bivalve communities in the western Tarim Basin and thei paleoenvironmental implications.2
- A Late Oligocene (Chattian B) Molluscan Fauna from the Coastal Cliff at Mogenstrup, North of Skive, Jutland, Denmark2
- A late Oligocene molluscan fauna and Oligocene coastal outcrops from Vilsund, NW Denmark1
- Palaeontological Study of the Neerrepen Sands in the Francart Quarry (Tongeren, Belgium)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Hilberia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow 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 itChlamydinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Teppner 1922)