Dicranella

Dicranella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BolliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 1.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

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60 occurrences of Dicranella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

60 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

12 formations

Decorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.43°N, 97.19°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDolgeville Facies — 43.21°N, 75.46°WSunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WDenley Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°W

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The named rock units Dicranella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicranella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dicranella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Dicranella, 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

11 references

Each of the 60 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 Dicranella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itBolliidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.