Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi

Not Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi. This is Dictyostrophia Caster, 1939, a relative — both are Stropheodontidae.
Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
2 occurrences of Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Amphigenia2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Brachyspirifer2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Cryptonella2 sites
- Cymostrophia2 sites
- Cypricardinia2 sites
- Elita2 sites
- Eodevonaria2 sites
- Kettneraspis callicera2 sites
- Leptostrophia (Rhytistrophia)2 sites
- Megastrophia2 sites
- Meristella2 sites
- Nucleospira concinna2 sites
- Pentagonia2 sites
- Platyostoma lineata2 sites
- Pleurodictyum2 sites
- Schellwienella2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus2 sites
- Viaphacops salteri2 sites
- Acanthograptus1 site
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi, 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 referencesEach of the 2 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
Media content1

Picture of Dictyostrophia Caster, 1939
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi 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 itDictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Caster 1939)