Dictyotomaria meekana

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyotomariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At most 7.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 335.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Dictyotomaria meekana on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

Mount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°W

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

Dictyotomaria meekana and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyotomaria meekana and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dictyotomaria meekana, 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

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 Dictyotomaria meekana 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 Dictyotomaria meekana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyotomaria meekana 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 itDictyotomaria through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1856)