Dalmanelloidea

Wilson44691 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- DalmanellidinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 232 million years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
7,545 occurrences of Dalmanelloidea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
7,545 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- Ordovician41%
- Silurian32%
- Devonian19%
- Carboniferous5%
- Permian4%
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
1139 formations
- Kope Formation · Cincinnati Group221
- Martinsburg Formation141
- Henryhouse Formation120
- Solvik Formation117
- Waynesville Formation · Richmondian Group98
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group80
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Dalmanelloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,115 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,097 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dalmanelloidea and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dalmanelloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,734 taxa- Crinoidea85 sites
- Rhipidomella61 sites
- Leptaena57 sites
- Bryozoa42 sites
- Schuchertella40 sites
- Lingula39 sites
- Atrypa38 sites
- Hallopora38 sites
- Dalmanella35 sites
- Isorthis35 sites
- Fenestella34 sites
- Rafinesquina34 sites
- Sowerbyella34 sites
- Rugosa33 sites
- Tentaculites31 sites
- Trepostomata31 sites
- Isotelus29 sites
- Ostracoda29 sites
- Platystrophia29 sites
- Spirifer29 sites
- Strophomena29 sites
- Camarotoechia28 sites
- Ctenodonta28 sites
- Nuculites28 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,334 sites for Dalmanelloidea, 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
889 references- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA231
- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia223
- Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales223
- Analysis of sample-level properties along a paleoenvironmental gradient: the behavior of evenness as a function of sample size128
- Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales115
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI111
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America110
- Brachiopods of the Henryhouse Formation (Silurian) of Oklahoma103
- Ordovician brachiopods Enteletacea of the east baltic area100
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York95
- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire92
- Community gradients in the Martinsburg Fm. (Ord.) southwestern Virginia80
Each of the 7,545 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. 877 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 Dalmanelloidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Wilson44691
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dalmanelloidea 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 itDalmanellidina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1913