Dicoelostrophia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicoelostrophiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
43 occurrences of Dicoelostrophia 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
43 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
11 formations
- Yukiang Formation18
- Yujiang Formation15
- Pochiao Formation2
- Yehlan Formation1
- Yilan Formation1
- Ganxi Formation1
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The named rock units Dicoelostrophia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dicoelostrophia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Dicoelostrophia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Rostrospirifer22 sites
- Nadiastrophia18 sites
- Uncinulus15 sites
- Acrospirifer14 sites
- Howittia12 sites
- Chonetes11 sites
- Elymospirifer11 sites
- Cymostrophia10 sites
- Megastrophia10 sites
- Parachonetes10 sites
- Schizophoria10 sites
- Eosophragmophora9 sites
- Howellella9 sites
- Huananochonetes8 sites
- Levenea8 sites
- Spirigerella grandis8 sites
- Athyris7 sites
- Leptaenopyxis7 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Parathyrisina6 sites
- Protochonetes4 sites
- Calceola sandalina3 sites
- Leptostrophia3 sites
- Polygnathus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Dicoelostrophia, 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
6 references- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example17
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected13
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19885
- Proposal and comment on the definition of Emsian5
- Devonian tetracoral assemblages and their distribution in Guangxi, China2
- Brachiopods and their relation to facies development in the lower and Middle Devonian of Nandan, Guangxi, South China1
Each of the 43 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 content1
Picture of Dicoelostrophia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDicoelostrophiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.