Dictyococcites

Dictyococcites

Dr Paul R. Bown · 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
NoelaerhabdaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 2323 occurrencesEocene — about 364 of 2323 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 189 of 2323 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 981 of 2323 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 495 of 2323 occurrencesPleistocene — about 294 of 2323 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 9 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 11 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 22 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 24 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 21 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 41 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 60 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 61 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 64 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 59 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 32 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 32 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 32 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 33 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 40 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 76 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 76 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 76 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 89 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 106 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 111 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 133 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 133 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 145 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 288 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 309 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 218 occurrences48.07 Mya290 ka57 Mya0 Mya

2,323 occurrences of Dictyococcites on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2,323 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

5 formations

Blue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WMarne di Priabona — 45.50°N, 11.75°EMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°ECastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°W

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The named rock units Dictyococcites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2,317 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyococcites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dictyococcites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

209 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,263 sites for Dictyococcites, 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

45 references

Each of the 2,323 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. 33 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 content1

Picture of Dictyococcites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Paul R. Bown
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dictyococcites 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 itNoelaerhabdaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Black 1967