Dictyoclostus inflatus

No picture of Dictyoclostus inflatus 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 Dictyoclostus inflatus, 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 least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 44 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 40 of 44 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 44 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 44 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–350 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 8 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 9 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 4 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 4 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351.9 Mya290.1 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

44 occurrences of Dictyoclostus inflatus 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

44 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

20 formations

Heath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WHeath — 46.79°N, 108.87°WGarcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WBeech Creek — 38.71°N, 86.70°WBeech Creek — 38.60°N, 86.66°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WKapp Starostin — 78.09°N, 13.81°ELittle Valley — 36.75°N, 82.25°WHillsdale Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.25°WGolconda — 37.99°N, 86.56°WFraileys Shale — 37.53°N, 89.28°WBig Snowy — 45.98°N, 111.50°WDessa Dawn — 52.25°N, 117.25°WElephant Butte — 33.20°N, 107.32°WLodgepole — 46.96°N, 110.49°WIllipah — 38.65°N, 113.97°WTunnel Mountain — 50.48°N, 114.71°WMattson — 61.10°N, 123.98°WIyoukeen — 57.87°N, 134.97°WLower Brachiopod Chert — 78.49°N, 16.79°EBird Spring — 35.91°N, 115.39°WBrazer Limestone — 41.66°N, 111.71°W

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The named rock units Dictyoclostus inflatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoclostus inflatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

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

Found in the same rock

336 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Dictyoclostus inflatus, 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

20 references

Each of the 44 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. 8 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Dictyoclostus inflatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. (McChesney 1860)