Dictyoclostus arcuatus

No picture of Dictyoclostus arcuatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dictyoclostus arcuatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyoclostusPBDB
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 most 49 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 9 of 15 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous373–371 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence368–366 Mya — about 1 occurrence366–365 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–358 Mya — about 1 occurrence358–356 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences373 Mya322 Mya

15 occurrences of Dictyoclostus arcuatus 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

15 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

7 formations

Three Forks Shale — 45.96°N, 111.54°WThree Forks Shale — 45.92°N, 111.55°WThree Forks Shale — 45.83°N, 111.64°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WChapin — 42.84°N, 93.23°WMaynes Creek — 42.83°N, 93.24°WBanff — 57.00°N, 120.00°WEscabrosa Limestone — 31.66°N, 110.90°WBesa River — 61.10°N, 123.98°W

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The named rock units Dictyoclostus arcuatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoclostus arcuatus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dictyoclostus arcuatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Dictyoclostus arcuatus, 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

5 references

Each of the 15 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 content0

No picture of Dictyoclostus arcuatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Dictyoclostus arcuatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyoclostus arcuatus 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 itDictyoclostus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1858)