Dictyaraea

No picture of Dictyaraea 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 Dictyaraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PoritidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Poritidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Poritidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Poritidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Poritidae

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 47 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66 Mya2.58 Mya74 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Dictyaraea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

47 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

Gelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EGelingseh — 0.87°N, 117.85°EPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.15°N, 88.67°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.97°N, 88.55°WDomaring — 2.00°N, 112.00°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.52°N, 55.88°ESon Sastre Sandstones and Lutites — 39.54°N, 2.97°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°E

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The named rock units Dictyaraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyaraea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dictyaraea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Dictyaraea, 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

24 references

Each of the 47 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 Dictyaraea 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 Dictyaraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyaraea 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 itPoritidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1867