Dentalium decoratum

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

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 most 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic237–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237.5 Mya226.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Dentalium decoratum on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

Cassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°E

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

Dentalium decoratum and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Dentalium decoratum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

530 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dentalium decoratum, 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

4 references

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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Dentalium decoratum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Münster 1841