Hyolithomorpha

No picture of Hyolithomorpha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Hyolithomorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 459.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 203 of 208 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 5 of 208 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 208 occurrences541–537 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences537–534 Mya — about 1 occurrence534–531 Mya — about 1 occurrence531–527 Mya — about 4 occurrences527–524 Mya — about 14 occurrences524–521 Mya — about 29 occurrences521–517 Mya — about 40 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 28 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 5 occurrences511–508 Mya — about 9 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 45 occurrences504–501 Mya — about 20 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 5 occurrences498–494 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525.5 Mya459.3 Mya541 Mya441 Mya

208 occurrences of Hyolithomorpha 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

208 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

35 formations

Gowers — 19.50°S, 138.93°EGowers — 19.57°S, 138.92°EYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.68°N, 102.17°EYuanshan — 25.72°N, 103.99°EPestrotsvet — 57.25°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°EYu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°ETyuser — 71.57°N, 127.37°ETyuser — 71.52°N, 127.37°ETyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°EBeetle Creek — 21.83°S, 139.98°ETindall Limestone — 13.33°S, 130.63°ETindall Limestone — 13.88°S, 131.15°ETindall Limestone — 13.82°S, 131.35°ETindall Limestone — 14.25°S, 131.38°ETindall Limestone — 14.50°S, 132.17°ETindall Limestone — 13.68°S, 131.33°ETindall Limestone — 13.80°S, 131.00°ETindall Limestone — 14.42°S, 132.25°EDengying — 30.73°N, 111.13°EDengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°EShabakty — 43.47°N, 69.87°EShabakty — 43.62°N, 69.73°EShabakty — 43.60°N, 69.33°EShabakty — 43.68°N, 69.68°EShabakty — 43.60°N, 69.45°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°EWulongqing — 25.68°N, 102.17°EGuojiaba — 32.98°N, 107.76°EGuojiaba — 32.83°N, 106.25°EGuojiaba — 32.53°N, 107.91°EMt. Whyte — 51.49°N, 116.08°WMt. Whyte — 50.90°N, 115.62°WMt. Whyte — 51.42°N, 116.40°WMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°ELiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECzarna Shale — 50.65°N, 20.93°EBalang — 27.17°N, 108.54°EBalang — 26.39°N, 107.69°ESalanygol — 46.95°N, 93.83°ESalanygol — 46.83°N, 95.75°EBeshtash — 42.17°N, 72.00°EMaidiping — 29.53°N, 103.39°EShuijingtuo — 30.50°N, 111.16°EMedvezhya — 71.33°N, 99.50°EPioche — 40.64°N, 111.69°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZwetau — 51.17°N, 15.00°E

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The named rock units Hyolithomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Hyolithomorpha and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hyolithomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

874 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Hyolithomorpha, 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

40 references

Each of the 208 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. 28 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 content0

No picture of Hyolithomorpha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Hyolithomorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hyolithomorpha 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 itHyolitha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.