Dictyodedalus

No picture of Dictyodedalus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyodedalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcropyramididaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

11 occurrences of Dictyodedalus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

11 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

3 formations

Scaglia Bianca — 43.48°N, 12.72°EScaglia Bianca — 43.38°N, 12.62°EBallik — 36.88°N, 30.50°ESolan — 49.38°N, 18.39°E

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

Dictyodedalus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dictyodedalus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dictyodedalus, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dictyodedalus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyodedalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcropyramididae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. O'Dogherty 1994