Dentalium (Dentalium) pulchrum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Dentalium (Dentalium)PBDB
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 most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Dentalium (Dentalium) pulchrum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

4 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

1 formation

Submeseta — 64.25°S, 56.64°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.64°W

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The named rock units Dentalium (Dentalium) pulchrum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dentalium (Dentalium) pulchrum and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dentalium (Dentalium) pulchrum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

CT scan

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

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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dentalium (Dentalium) pulchrum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDentalium (Dentalium) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilckens 1911)