Dichacaenia
No picture of Dichacaenia 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 Dichacaenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonalosiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 379 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dichacaenia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Aouinet Ouenine II Formation1
- Little Cedar Formation · Cedar Valley Group1
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The named rock units Dichacaenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dichacaenia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Dichacaenia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Actinodesma1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtospirifer1 site
- Eumetabolotoechia1 site
- Greenops1 site
- Leptaena borghiana1 site
- Leptodesma1 site
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)1 site
- Libyaerhynchus1 site
- Loxonematidae1 site
- Lyriopecten1 site
- Mucrospirifer1 site
- Nuculites1 site
- Rhipidomella1 site
- Ripidiorhynchus1 site
- Sphenotus1 site
- Tentaculitida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dichacaenia, 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
2 references- Faunal signatures of Middle-Upper Devonian depositional sequences and sea level fluctuations in the Iowa Basin: US Midcontinent1
- Devonian and Lower Carboniferous brachiopods and bivalves from western Libya1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Dichacaenia 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 Dichacaenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dichacaenia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDonalosiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Dutro 1982