Dechenella alpenensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DechenellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Dechenella alpenensis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Dechenella alpenensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dechenella alpenensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Dechenella alpenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Basidechenella lucasensis4 sites
- Mucrospirifer4 sites
- Pholidostrophia4 sites
- Acanthoclema3 sites
- Actinopteria boydi3 sites
- Arthroacantha3 sites
- Devonochonetes3 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus3 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus3 sites
- Eldredgeops rana3 sites
- Fistulipora3 sites
- Hederella3 sites
- Leioclema3 sites
- Paraspirifer3 sites
- Planalveolitella3 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana3 sites
- Streblotrypa3 sites
- Styliolina fissurella3 sites
- Sulcoretepora3 sites
- Tentaculites bellulus3 sites
- Ascodictyon2 sites
- Aulocystis2 sites
- Botryllopora2 sites
- Cornellites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dechenella alpenensis, 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
3 references- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation3
- Trilobites of the Devonian Traverse Group of Michigan3
- Devonian trilobites from northwestern Ohio, northern Michigan, and western New York1
Each of the 7 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 Dechenella alpenensis 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 Dechenella alpenensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dechenella alpenensis 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 itDechenella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stumm 1953)