Hypseloconus simplex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypseloconusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Kiringellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Kiringellida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Kiringellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tergomya
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hypseloconus simplex 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Hypseloconus simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypseloconus simplex and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hypseloconus simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Cheilocephalus2 sites
- Glaphyraspis2 sites
- Aphelaspis1 site
- Aphelaspis walcotti1 site
- Cheilocephalus brevilobus1 site
- Glaphyraspis parva1 site
- Hypseloconus elongatus1 site
- Maryvillia omega1 site
- Proplina loganensis1 site
- Pseudomatthevia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hypseloconus simplex, 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
3 references- An Aphelaspis Zone faunule from Logan, Montana1
- Upper Cambrian faunas from the northwest Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Part 11
- A Cambrian Aphelaspis fauna from Steele Butte, near Boulder, Wyoming1
Each 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 Hypseloconus simplex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hypseloconus simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHypseloconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman and Duncan 1944