Diploblastus
No picture of Diploblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Diploblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TroosticrinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Diploblastus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
31 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
6 formations
- Bangor Limestone Formation25
- Pella Formation2
- Monteagle Limestone Formation1
- Salem Limestone Formation1
- Renault Formation1
- Otter Formation1
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The named rock units Diploblastus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diploblastus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Diploblastus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Pentremites27 sites
- Cleiothyridina26 sites
- Echinoidea26 sites
- Fenestella26 sites
- Fistulipora26 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi24 sites
- Camptocrinus24 sites
- Composita24 sites
- Dichocrinus24 sites
- Orthotetes24 sites
- Productida23 sites
- Reticulariina22 sites
- Rhabdomeson22 sites
- Aphelacrinus sp.21 sites
- Paladin21 sites
- Archimedes20 sites
- Eumetria20 sites
- Phanocrinus20 sites
- Ramulocrinus19 sites
- Tabulipora19 sites
- Cornulites18 sites
- Torynifer18 sites
- Cymbiocrinus17 sites
- Ophiuroidea17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Diploblastus, 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
7 references- The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama25
- The early ontogeny of blastoids1
- Early Chesterian Echinoderms from the Otter Formation of Central Montana1
- Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of Mississippian strata in Keokuk and Washington Counties, southeast Iowa1
- Facies Faunas of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky1
- Praepholidocidaris, a New Echinoid from the Pella Formation (Mississippian) of Iowa1
- A Mississippian Echinoderm Site in Alabama1
Each of the 31 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
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No picture of Diploblastus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Diploblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diploblastus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTroosticrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fay 1961