Dictyonella reticulata

No picture of Dictyonella reticulata 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 reticulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 22 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 17 of 22 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449.5 Mya432.9 Mya458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

22 occurrences of Dictyonella reticulata 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

22 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

Waldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°W

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The named rock units Dictyonella reticulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyonella reticulata and its relatives

Silurian

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

Found in the same rock

344 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Dictyonella reticulata, 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

6 references

Each of the 22 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. 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 Dictyonella reticulata 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 reticulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyonella reticulata 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