Hyolithes dorbignyi
No picture of Hyolithes dorbignyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hyolithes dorbignyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithes
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hyolithes dorbignyi on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group2
- Voorstehoek Formation · Bokkeveld Group1
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The named rock units Hyolithes dorbignyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyolithes dorbignyi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hyolithes dorbignyi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Actinopteria3 sites
- Anchiopella3 sites
- Australospirifer3 sites
- Burmeisteria3 sites
- Ctenodonta3 sites
- Grammysia3 sites
- Metacryphaeus (Metacryphaeus) caffer3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Nuculites3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Asterozoa2 sites
- Australocoelia2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Blastoidea2 sites
- Buchiola2 sites
- Burmeisteria (Digonus) noticus2 sites
- Coelospira2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Eodevonaria2 sites
- Francovichia2 sites
- Hexuraster weitzi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hyolithes dorbignyi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Hyolithes dorbignyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hyolithes dorbignyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hyolithes dorbignyi 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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What may have been alongside itHyolithes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozlowski 1923