Dictyoclostus hermosanus

Dictyoclostus hermosanus (Girty, 1899), a relative of Dictyoclostus hermosanus — not Dictyoclostus hermosanus itself

Not Dictyoclostus hermosanus. This is Dictyoclostus hermosanus (Girty, 1899), a relative — both are Productidae.

via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
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 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.6 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319.1 Mya305.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Dictyoclostus hermosanus 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

2 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

2 formations

Garcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WBurgner — 38.33°N, 92.60°W

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The named rock units Dictyoclostus hermosanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dictyoclostus hermosanus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyoclostus hermosanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dictyoclostus hermosanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Dictyoclostus hermosanus (Girty, 1899)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dictyoclostus hermosanus 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1899)