Dionella dimartinoae
Dr Frank K. McKinney · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DionellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dionella dimartinoae on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Dionella dimartinoae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dionella dimartinoae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dionella dimartinoae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Cheethamia dividia2 sites
- Praelacazella wetherelli2 sites
- Aspidostoma1 site
- Aspidostoma enchiridium1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Cianotremella dimorpha1 site
- Cryptostomella giralia1 site
- Ellisina1 site
- Filisinella tenuiaviculata1 site
- Haigina distincta1 site
- Heterothoa repens1 site
- Ichnopora1 site
- Isocardabiella clavata1 site
- Korojonella kenozooidea1 site
- Marginaria1 site
- Melychocella cretacea1 site
- Nudicella dissidens1 site
- Paraflustrella berningi1 site
- Paraflustrella lacunosa1 site
- Peedeesella mckinneyi1 site
- Plagioecia1 site
- Proboscinopora1 site
- Stichomicropora australis1 site
- Unicavea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dionella dimartinoae, 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 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Dionella dimartinoae
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Frank K. McKinney
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dionella dimartinoae 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 itDionella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Håkansson et al. 2024