Dechenella altenae
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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 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 385.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Dechenella altenae 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
8 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 altenae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dechenella altenae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Dechenella altenae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Icriodus regularicrescens4 sites
- Mucrospirifer4 sites
- Reticulariopsis4 sites
- Gudralisium viator3 sites
- Gerastos prox2 sites
- Icriodus2 sites
- Quiringites2 sites
- Spinocyrtia2 sites
- Arduspirifer1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Carpinaria1 site
- Euomphalus radiatus1 site
- Geesops brunopauli1 site
- Nowakia1 site
- Nyterops1 site
- Schizophora1 site
- Schizophoria1 site
- Scutellum1 site
- Spinatrypa1 site
- Struveina1 site
- Subcuspidella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Dechenella altenae, 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
2 references- Korrelationen des Eifelium/Givetium-Grenzbereichs im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge6
- Trilobiten aus mittlerem Devon des Rhenohercynikums: I. Corynexochida und Proetida (1)2
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Dechenella altenae 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 Dechenella altenae, 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 itDechenella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Basse 1996