Hyolithellus insolitus
No picture of Hyolithellus insolitus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hyolithellus insolitus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithellusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithellus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 509.7 Mya.
4 occurrences of Hyolithellus insolitus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hyolithellus insolitus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyolithellus insolitus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hyolithellus insolitus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Sphenothallus2 sites
- Allatheca corrugata1 site
- Archaeocyathus arborensis1 site
- Barbitositheca ansata1 site
- Bemella1 site
- Bonnia caperata1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Claruscoscinus1 site
- Coleoloides typicalis1 site
- Conotheca1 site
- Conotheca mammilata1 site
- Cordilleracyathus1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eothele spurri1 site
- Ethmophyllum whitneyi1 site
- Gatagacyathus1 site
- Goldfieldia pacifica1 site
- Hadrotreta primaea1 site
- Halkieria1 site
- Hexactinellida1 site
- Hexangulaconularia1 site
- Hyolithellus isiticus1 site
- Hyolithellus vladimirovae1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hyolithellus insolitus, 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
4 references- Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA1
- An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia1
- The Lower Cambrian brachiopod Kyrshabaktella and associated shelly fossils from the Harkless Formation, southern Nevada1
- Microfossils and Precambrian-Cambrian boundary stratigraphy at Maldeota, Lesser Himalaya1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Hyolithellus insolitus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hyolithellus insolitus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Hyolithellus insolitus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHyolithellus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voronin et al. 1982