Hyolithidae

The Hyolithidae are a family of hyoliths that lived from the Early Cambrian until the Late Permian.

Hyolithidae

Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
HyolithidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
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 272 of 484 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 112 of 484 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 32 of 484 occurrencesDevonian — about 55 of 484 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 11 of 484 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 484 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 484 occurrences544–535 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences535–525 Mya — about 3 occurrences525–515 Mya — about 36 occurrences515–505 Mya — about 149 occurrences505–495 Mya — about 55 occurrences495–485 Mya — about 29 occurrences485–475 Mya — about 8 occurrences475–466 Mya — about 10 occurrences466–456 Mya — about 38 occurrences456–446 Mya — about 48 occurrences446–436 Mya — about 12 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

484 occurrences of Hyolithidae 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

484 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

179 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WGowers — 19.50°S, 138.93°EGowers — 19.57°S, 138.92°ELower 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°EBeetle Creek — 21.89°S, 139.98°EBeetle Creek — 21.83°S, 139.98°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°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDuNoir — 43.28°N, 109.83°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EBrowns 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°WBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WFosters Point — 48.16°N, 53.70°WMount Cap — 64.45°N, 126.87°WMount Cap — 67.24°N, 126.31°WHanford 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°EJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°ELead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WGeneseo — 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°W

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The named rock units Hyolithidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 155 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyolithidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hyolithidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

2,671 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 393 sites for Hyolithidae, 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

176 references

Each of the 484 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. 164 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 content1

Picture of Hyolithidae

Credit
Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hyolithidae 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.

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.

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What may have been alongside itHyolithida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1889