Hypselentoma

Hypselentoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlabrocingulidesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPermian396–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–322 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences285–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence271–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–262 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387.95 Mya266.9 Mya396 Mya257 Mya

11 occurrences of Hypselentoma on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

11 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

7 formations

Road Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WPillsbury Shale — 40.67°N, 95.85°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WDenay Limestone — 39.98°N, 116.27°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WUpper Limestone — 55.80°N, 4.31°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°W

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The named rock units Hypselentoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hypselentoma and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Hypselentoma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

422 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hypselentoma, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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. 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 Hypselentoma

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hypselentoma 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 itGlabrocingulides through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1929