Dayia

A picture published with the record for Dayia. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
DayiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 121 occurrencesSilurian — about 117 of 121 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 121 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–425 Mya — about 22 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 33 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 34 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 21 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 5 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440.5 Mya419.62 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

121 occurrences of Dayia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

121 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

45 formations

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.13°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EPagegiai — 55.25°N, 22.29°EPagegiai — 55.20°N, 21.77°EPagegiai — 55.57°N, 21.45°ELeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 52.00°N, 3.00°WLeintwardine — 52.38°N, 2.85°WLeintwardine — 51.88°N, 2.23°WMinija — 55.25°N, 22.29°EMinija — 55.08°N, 25.42°EDubysa — 55.40°N, 22.90°EDubysa — 54.63°N, 22.82°EDubysa — 54.65°N, 23.03°ELower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 3.00°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EMituva — 54.63°N, 22.82°EMituva — 55.40°N, 22.90°EDzwinogorod Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°EDzwinogorod Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EJura — 55.25°N, 22.29°EIsfara — 39.95°N, 70.50°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°ETrubchin Suite — 48.50°N, 26.30°ETrubchin Suite — 48.00°N, 26.00°EKustin — 52.00°N, 24.00°EBorshchiv — 48.54°N, 26.24°EKaugatuma — 58.12°N, 22.19°EWhitcliffe Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WIsakov Beds — 49.58°N, 23.90°ELochkov — 49.93°N, 14.13°E

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The named rock units Dayia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dayia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dayia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

632 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Dayia, 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

37 references

Each of the 121 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. 25 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 Dayia

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davidson 1881