Dictyonocoelia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CraticulariinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 29 of 30 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous160–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 4 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157.9 Mya132.6 Mya159.7 Mya125.1 Mya

30 occurrences of Dictyonocoelia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

30 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

Calcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EJasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Dictyonocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyonocoelia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Dictyonocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Dictyonocoelia, 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

7 references

Each of the 30 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

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

No 3D scan of Dictyonocoelia 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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What may have been alongside itCraticulariinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etallon 1859