Hyolithes

Hyolithes

Uncredited · 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
HyolithidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 261 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Cambrian — about 176 of 366 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 91 of 366 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 31 of 366 occurrencesDevonian — about 55 of 366 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 11 of 366 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 366 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 366 occurrences544–535 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences535–525 Mya — about 1 occurrence525–515 Mya — about 28 occurrences515–505 Mya — about 80 occurrences505–495 Mya — about 38 occurrences495–485 Mya — about 29 occurrences485–475 Mya — about 7 occurrences475–466 Mya — about 7 occurrences466–456 Mya — about 30 occurrences456–446 Mya — about 41 occurrences446–436 Mya — about 9 occurrences436–426 Mya — about 5 occurrences426–416 Mya — about 23 occurrences416–406 Mya — about 9 occurrences406–396 Mya — about 15 occurrences396–387 Mya — about 16 occurrences387–377 Mya — about 12 occurrences377–367 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences367–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–337 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–318 Mya — about 3 occurrences318–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences521 Mya259.857 Mya544 Mya248 Mya

366 occurrences of Hyolithes 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

366 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

152 formations

Lower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 32.18°S, 18.90°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.00°N, 76.73°WKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WKinzers — 40.09°N, 76.35°WParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EDuNoir — 43.28°N, 109.83°WBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WBrowns Pond — 43.60°N, 73.32°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.67°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EHanford Brook — 45.35°N, 65.53°WHanford Brook — 45.00°N, 65.00°WKunlein — 22.37°N, 98.14°EKunlein — 22.22°N, 98.34°EKunlein — 22.36°N, 98.18°EKunlein — 21.10°N, 97.72°EKunlein — 22.93°N, 97.30°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.78°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.41°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.74°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EMcIvor — 36.77°S, 144.77°EMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°EMcIvor — 37.00°S, 144.00°EPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WRingstrand — 60.90°N, 10.73°EMount Cap — 67.24°N, 126.31°W

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The named rock units Hyolithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 128 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyolithes and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hyolithes and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

2,724 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 289 sites for Hyolithes, and this reads 240 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

138 references

Each of the 366 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. 126 further references are not listed. 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 Hyolithes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. (d'Eichwald 1840)