Hydroides

Hydroides is a genus of tube-forming serpulid worms found on submerged saltwater rocks, shells, and boats in many coastal areas around the world.

Hydroides

Ernst Haeckel · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
SerpuliniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulidae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 19 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Hydroides on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

19 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

5 formations

Acredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WMulege — 27.07°N, 111.97°WBirket Qarun — 29.28°N, 30.04°E

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The named rock units Hydroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hydroides and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hydroides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Hydroides, 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

12 references

Each of the 19 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

Media content2

Picture of Hydroides

Credit
Ernst Haeckel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bitia hydroides · FMNH:Amphibians and Reptiles:218850

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSerpulini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.