Dictyonites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaterinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Paterinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Paterinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Paterinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Paterinata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 475.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician476–475 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya452.8 Mya475.9 Mya444.6 Mya

13 occurrences of Dictyonites on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

13 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

Valhallfonna — 79.85°N, 17.67°ESegerstad Limestone — 62.97°N, 14.48°EMayatas — 52.45°N, 71.54°EPratt Ferry — 33.02°N, 87.08°WFurudal — 62.97°N, 14.48°E

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

Dictyonites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dictyonites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Dictyonites, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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 Dictyonites 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 Dictyonites, 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 itPaterinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956