Hyposalenia heliophora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyposaleniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Salenioida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Salenioida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Salenioida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hyposalenia heliophora on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Hyposalenia heliophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyposalenia heliophora and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Hyposalenia heliophora and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Adelopneustes montainvillensis1 site
- Astropecten1 site
- Bourgueticrinus danicus1 site
- Cidaridae1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Democrinus maximus1 site
- Gauthieria1 site
- Linthia1 site
- Lophidiaster punctatus1 site
- Metopaster carinatus1 site
- Metopaster kagstrupensis1 site
- Ophiocoma senonensis1 site
- Procassidulus1 site
- Salenia belgica1 site
- Schizasteridae1 site
- Stauranderaster miliaris1 site
- Teichaster anchylus1 site
- Temnocidaris danica1 site
- Tylocidaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hyposalenia heliophora, 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
2 references- Palaeobiology and biogeography of a Danian echinoid fauna of Lower Austria1
- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids1
Each of the 2 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 Hyposalenia heliophora 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 Hyposalenia heliophora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hyposalenia heliophora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHyposalenia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz and Desor 1846)