Hiscobeccus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchotrematinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
280 occurrences of Hiscobeccus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
280 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
41 formations
- Liberty Formation · Richmondian Group66
- Waynesville Formation · Richmondian Group36
- Whitewater Formation · Richmondian Group31
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group15
- Advance Formation8
- Stony Mountain Formation8
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The named rock units Hiscobeccus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hiscobeccus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hiscobeccus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
628 taxa- Hebertella occidentalis108 sites
- Trepostomata91 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata90 sites
- Strophomena planumbona67 sites
- Isotelus65 sites
- Plaesiomys subquadratus60 sites
- Strophomena57 sites
- Bryozoa53 sites
- Streptelasma divaricans44 sites
- Platystrophia43 sites
- Zygospira modesta42 sites
- Eochonetes clarksvillensis35 sites
- Grewingkia34 sites
- Protaraea richmondensis33 sites
- Glyptorthis insculpta30 sites
- Flexicalymene26 sites
- Leptaena richmondensis24 sites
- Strophomena vetusta23 sites
- Platystrophia acutilirata22 sites
- Cincinnetina meeki20 sites
- Platystrophia clarksvillensis20 sites
- Rhynchotrema dentatum20 sites
- Cryptostomata18 sites
- Nasutimena fluctuosa18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 274 sites for Hiscobeccus, and this reads 240 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
37 references- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA97
- GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella62
- Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario15
- Late Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Red River and Stony Mountain Formations, Southern Manitoba10
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area9
- Upper Middle Ordovician (Caradoc) brachiopods from the Advance Formation, northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia8
- Rhynchonellacea From the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas6
- Ordovician paleontology of the Northern Hudson Bay lowland6
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia6
- Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA5
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities5
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region5
Each of the 280 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. 25 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 content2

Picture of Hiscobeccus
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
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- Sketchfab
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- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itRhynchotrematinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Amsden 1983