Dictyopyge illustrans

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyopygePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 244.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Triassic249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249.1 Mya243.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Dictyopyge illustrans on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

1 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

1 formation

Terrigal — 33.43°S, 151.34°E

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

Dictyopyge illustrans and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Dictyopyge illustrans and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dictyopyge illustrans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Dictyopyge illustrans 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 itDictyopyge through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1890