Dicellomus politus

Dicellomus politus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DicellomusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 493.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Dicellomus politus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

1 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

Franconia — 45.40°N, 92.66°W

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

Dicellomus politus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dicellomus politus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dicellomus politus, 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 1 occurrence 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 Dicellomus politus

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

No 3D scan of Dicellomus politus 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 itDicellomus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1861)