Diencobolus
No picture of Diencobolus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diencobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaterulidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Linguloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Linguloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Linguloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 497 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 499.5 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
7 occurrences of Diencobolus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian14%
- Ordovician86%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Diencobolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diencobolus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diencobolus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Acrotreta6 sites
- Wahwahlingula5 sites
- Gondwanorthis bastamensis4 sites
- Akmolina3 sites
- Eurytreta3 sites
- Shumardia (Conophrys) simehensis3 sites
- Elliptoglossa2 sites
- Paltodus deltifer2 sites
- Paroistodus2 sites
- Tritoechia2 sites
- Variabiliconus variabilis2 sites
- Acanthambonia1 site
- Alichovia1 site
- Ditreta1 site
- Eoconulus1 site
- Eurytreta minor1 site
- Leptembolon lingulaeformis1 site
- Mamatia1 site
- Orbithele ceratopygarum1 site
- Pomeraniotreta1 site
- Rowellella1 site
- Semitreta1 site
- Siphonobolus1 site
- Siphonotretella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Diencobolus, 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
3 references- Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) brachiopods from the Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran5
- Lingulate brachiopods from Lower Ordovician (Tremadoc) chalcedonites, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland1
- Cambrian - early Ordovician brachiopods from Malyi Karatau, the western Balkhash region, and Tien Shan, Central Asia1
Each of the 7 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. 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 Diencobolus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diencobolus, 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaterulidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holmer et al. 2001