Dictyoclostus

Dictyoclostus

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyoclostiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 400 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 285 of 400 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 106 of 400 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 400 occurrences375–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–366 Mya — about 3 occurrences366–362 Mya — about 3 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 7 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 21 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 20 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 16 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 15 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 33 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 38 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 33 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 27 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 11 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 6 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 9 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 19 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 22 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 10 occurrences300–295 Mya — about 14 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 13 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 5 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 3 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 4 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 6 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 8 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 11 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 15 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 10 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 14 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 7 occurrences358.86 Mya254.14 Mya375 Mya249 Mya

400 occurrences of Dictyoclostus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

400 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

143 formations

Heath — 47.33°N, 109.07°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WHeath — 46.79°N, 108.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWargal — 32.48°N, 72.00°EWargal — 32.58°N, 72.37°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°EWargal — 32.48°N, 72.27°EWargal — 32.50°N, 71.93°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.73°N, 71.63°EThree Forks Shale — 45.96°N, 111.54°WThree Forks Shale — 45.92°N, 111.55°WThree Forks Shale — 45.83°N, 111.64°WMaping — 24.70°N, 105.22°EPottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 39.05°N, 94.67°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.33°N, 2.74°WWhiskey Canyon Limestone — 33.20°N, 107.32°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGarcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WBanff — 57.00°N, 120.00°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WArrey — 32.78°N, 107.27°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWood Siding — 39.46°N, 95.75°WWood Siding — 39.50°N, 96.08°WWood Siding — 39.38°N, 96.23°WWood Siding — 39.14°N, 96.45°WForaker Limestone — 39.27°N, 96.44°WForaker Limestone — 37.09°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestone — 39.39°N, 96.40°WForaker Limestone — 38.71°N, 96.15°WLodgepole — 46.96°N, 110.49°WLodgepole — 43.83°N, 111.75°WLittle Flat — 43.83°N, 111.75°WAntimonio — 30.77°N, 112.59°WRustler — 31.60°N, 104.23°WAmb — 32.40°N, 72.15°EAmb — 32.50°N, 71.93°ESaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WBeech Creek — 38.71°N, 86.70°WBeech Creek — 38.60°N, 86.66°WPennington — 36.75°N, 82.25°W

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The named rock units Dictyoclostus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 119 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoclostus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyoclostus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 315 sites for Dictyoclostus, and this reads 240 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

103 references

Each of the 400 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. 91 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

Media content2

Picture of Dictyoclostus

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itDictyoclostini through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muir-Wood 1930)