Diettertia montanensis

Diettertia montanensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiettertiaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 6.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120.1 Mya112.7 Mya

10 occurrences of Diettertia montanensis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

10 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

Kootenai — 47.48°N, 111.37°W

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The named rock units Diettertia montanensis 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.

Diettertia montanensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Diettertia montanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Diettertia montanensis, 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 10 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 Diettertia montanensis

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No 3D scan of Diettertia montanensis 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 itDiettertia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown and Robison 1974