Dentalium (Dentalium)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DentaliumPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 82 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 82 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 82 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 82 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 82 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 82 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 82 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 82 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–8.0 Mya — about 20 occurrences8.0–4.2 Mya — about 25 occurrences4.2–368 ka Mya — about 18 occurrences100.5 Mya3.6 Mya115 Mya368 ka

82 occurrences of Dentalium (Dentalium) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

82 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

19 formations

Springvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.64°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.64°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WJackson Bluff — 30.97°N, 84.53°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°ECaimito — 9.16°N, 79.87°WDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°EMoonkinu — 11.80°S, 130.40°EShitakara — 42.98°N, 144.38°EFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WCurchia — 44.76°N, 22.47°EBrasso — 10.48°N, 61.15°WEcija — 37.34°N, 5.84°WTucumcari — 35.11°N, 103.33°W

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The named rock units Dentalium (Dentalium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dentalium (Dentalium) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dentalium (Dentalium) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,449 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Dentalium (Dentalium), 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

21 references

Each of the 82 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. 9 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 content2

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dentalium sp. · MZRC:2082-2

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Dentalium (Dentalium) 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 Dentalium (Dentalium), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDentalium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758