Hyattidina congesta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyattidinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Hyattidina congesta on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
8 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Reynales Formation · Mediana Group8
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The named rock units Hyattidina congesta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyattidina congesta and its relatives
SilurianWhere Hyattidina congesta and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Coelospira hemispherica5 sites
- Strophodonta corrugata4 sites
- Cyclora3 sites
- Bucania stigmosa2 sites
- Buthotrephis gracilis2 sites
- Coelospira2 sites
- Holopea obsoleta2 sites
- Murchisonia subulata2 sites
- Phaenopora ensiformis2 sites
- Phaenopora explanata2 sites
- Rhynchotreta2 sites
- Atrypa1 site
- Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda1 site
- Bucania bellapuncta1 site
- Clintonella1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Dolerorthis flabellites1 site
- Eocoelia1 site
- Fardenia1 site
- Helopora fragilis1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Lichenalia concentrica1 site
- Mendacella1 site
- Meristina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Hyattidina congesta, 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- The Clinton of Western and Central New York7
- Redescription of Clintonella Hall (Silurian, Brachiopoda)1
Each of the 8 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 Hyattidina congesta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hyattidina congesta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itHyattidina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)