Dictyomitra andersoni

No picture of Dictyomitra andersoni 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 Dictyomitra andersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyomitraPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 61 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 49 of 61 occurrencesPaleocene72–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66 Mya61.66 Mya72.7 Mya58.7 Mya

61 occurrences of Dictyomitra andersoni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

61 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

1 formation

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°E

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The named rock units Dictyomitra andersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyomitra andersoni and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Dictyomitra andersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Dictyomitra andersoni, 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

1 reference

Each of the 61 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 Dictyomitra andersoni 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 Dictyomitra andersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyomitra andersoni 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Campbell and Clark 1944)