Dictyonocoelia lineatum

No picture of Dictyonocoelia lineatum was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 lineatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyonocoeliaPBDB
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 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157.9 Mya152.21 Mya159.5 Mya148.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Dictyonocoelia lineatum 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

11 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.

Dictyonocoelia lineatum and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dictyonocoelia lineatum, 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

2 references

Each of the 11 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 Dictyonocoelia lineatum was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 lineatum, 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 itDictyonocoelia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schrammen 1937)