Dictyonella gibbosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EodictyonellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Chileata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 16 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425 Mya422.7 Mya427.2 Mya419.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Dictyonella gibbosa on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

16 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

Henryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.11°N, 97.20°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WBainbridge Limestone — 37.80°N, 90.05°WDecatur — 35.62°N, 87.84°W

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

Dictyonella gibbosa and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dictyonella gibbosa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Dictyonella gibbosa, 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 16 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 Dictyonella gibbosa 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 Dictyonella gibbosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyonella gibbosa 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 itEodictyonella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1868