Diochthofera conspicua
No picture of Diochthofera conspicua was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 Diochthofera conspicua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiochthoferaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Diochthofera conspicua 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Diochthofera conspicua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diochthofera conspicua and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diochthofera conspicua and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Ptychopleurella uniplicata6 sites
- Skenidioides multifarius6 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata5 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus5 sites
- Amblysiphonella grossa4 sites
- Cystothalamiella ducta4 sites
- Eripnifera praecipitis4 sites
- Hesperorthis4 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi4 sites
- Rigbyetia obconica4 sites
- Salopina horseshoensis4 sites
- Scaphorthis4 sites
- Taphrorthis4 sites
- Anoptambonites3 sites
- Anoptambonites myriomorpheus3 sites
- Corymbospongia adnata3 sites
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis3 sites
- Elasmothyris limata3 sites
- Epitomyonia relicina3 sites
- Laticrura erecta3 sites
- Austinella kankakensis2 sites
- Imperatoria minima2 sites
- Replicoskenidioides2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Diochthofera conspicua, 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 referenceEach of the 6 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
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No picture of Diochthofera conspicua was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata and 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 Diochthofera conspicua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diochthofera conspicua 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 itDiochthofera through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potter 1990