Dictyophimus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucyrtiidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 320 occurrencesPaleocene — about 12 of 320 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 35 of 320 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 320 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 320 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 320 occurrencesPleistocene — about 242 of 320 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 24 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 243 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

320 occurrences of Dictyophimus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

320 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

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°ELefkara — 35.08°N, 33.67°ETakinoue — 42.80°N, 142.35°E

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The named rock units Dictyophimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 301 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyophimus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dictyophimus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 314 sites for Dictyophimus, and this reads 240 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

20 references

Each of the 320 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Dictyophimus 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 Dictyophimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyophimus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1846