Dibunophyllum

Searched as Dibunophyllum bipartitum bipartitum. The Paleobiology Database treats Dibunophyllum as the accepted name.

Dibunophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DibunophyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At most 9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 326.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferous336–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336.4 Mya326.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Dibunophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

11 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

11 formations

Hawes Limestone I — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVa — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVa Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VI — 54.30°N, 2.15°WThree Yard Limestone VII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WUnderset Limestone VIII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMain Limestone IX — 54.30°N, 2.15°W

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

Dibunophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dibunophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

747 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Dibunophyllum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 11 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

Picture of Dibunophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dibunophyllum 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 itDibunophyllinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson and Nicholson 1876