Hyolithellus rectus

No picture of Hyolithellus rectus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hyolithellus rectus 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. Wikipedia and 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 most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 525.5 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526 Mya520.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Hyolithellus rectus 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

10 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

1 formation

Chulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EChulaktau — 43.62°N, 69.73°EChulaktau — 43.37°N, 70.22°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.97°EChulaktau — 43.68°N, 69.68°EChulaktau — 43.60°N, 69.45°E

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The named rock units Hyolithellus rectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hyolithellus rectus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hyolithellus rectus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hyolithellus rectus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Hyolithellus rectus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hyolithellus rectus 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.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Hyolithellus rectus 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. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981