Digonella

Digonella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZeilleriinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 19 of 37 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 18 of 37 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences165.3 Mya157.9 Mya168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

37 occurrences of Digonella on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

37 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

7 formations

Marnes à Digonella divionensis — 47.32°N, 5.00°EMarnes à Digonella divionensis — 47.03°N, 4.83°EMarnes à Digonella divionensis — 46.65°N, 4.87°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EMatmor — 30.65°N, 35.00°EDalles à Bryozoaires — 47.32°N, 5.00°EMarnes à Digonella marcoui — 47.03°N, 4.83°ECouches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°E

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The named rock units Digonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Digonella and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Digonella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Digonella, 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

9 references

Each of the 37 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 content1

Picture of Digonella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itZeilleriinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.