Hiscocapsa

No picture of Hiscocapsa 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 Hiscocapsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WilliriedellidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 28 of 59 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 13 of 59 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 59 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 59 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 10 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 9 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 6 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–119 Mya — about 7 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.2 Mya106.3 Mya172 Mya99 Mya

59 occurrences of Hiscocapsa 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

59 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

14 formations

Scisti a Fucoidi — 43.48°N, 12.72°ESnowshoe — 44.13°N, 119.12°WSnowshoe — 44.13°N, 118.97°WStrubberg — 47.59°N, 12.98°EJarropa Radiolarite — 37.57°N, 3.50°WUnit 2 — 35.05°N, 120.17°WUnit 1 — 35.05°N, 120.17°WMilanos — 37.57°N, 3.50°WRosso ad Aptici — 45.88°N, 8.64°EVigla — 39.53°N, 20.53°EFonzaso — 46.05°N, 11.88°EGuinlo — 12.10°N, 120.17°EGuwayza — 22.82°N, 56.89°EWahrah — 22.74°N, 57.26°ECamarena — 37.57°N, 3.50°W

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The named rock units Hiscocapsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hiscocapsa and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Hiscocapsa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

608 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Hiscocapsa, 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

16 references

Each of the 59 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. 4 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 content0

No picture of Hiscocapsa 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 Hiscocapsa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hiscocapsa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. O'Dogherty 1994