Hoplitaechmella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychocellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
3 occurrences of Hoplitaechmella on record. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous67%
- Paleocene10%
- Eocene24%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Hoplitaechmella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Akatopora chathamica1 site
- Arachnopusia gracilis1 site
- Aspidostoma cinnabarina1 site
- Aspidostoma litotes1 site
- Attinopora1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Caleschara1 site
- Cataceramus1 site
- Cellaria depressa1 site
- Cellaria elementaria1 site
- Cellaria minus1 site
- Cellaria perexigua1 site
- Ceriopora rekohuensis1 site
- Chataimulosia primaeva1 site
- Cheethamia aktolagayensis1 site
- Cheethamia volgaensis1 site
- Cinctipora solomoni1 site
- Dionella1 site
- Disporella1 site
- Escharicellaria1 site
- Escharoides crassa1 site
- Exochella gracilis1 site
- Flustrellaria australis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hoplitaechmella, 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
2 references- Early Maastrichtian cheilostome bryozoans from the middle Volga River region2
- Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Hoplitaechmella 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 Hoplitaechmella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hoplitaechmella 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 itOnychocellidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voigt 1949