Diplotrypa bicornis

Bekker · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- DiplotrypaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Diplotrypa bicornis 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diplotrypa bicornis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diplotrypa bicornis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diplotrypa bicornis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Esthoniopora communis6 sites
- Esthoniopora curvata4 sites
- Hallopora dybowskii4 sites
- Nematotrypa gracilis4 sites
- Orbipora distincta4 sites
- Lioclema spineum3 sites
- Corynotrypa delicatula2 sites
- Diplotrypa petropolitana2 sites
- Dittopora colliculata2 sites
- Graptodictya bonnemai2 sites
- Hemiphragma panderi2 sites
- Hemiphragma rotundatum2 sites
- Homotrypella instabilis2 sites
- Mesotrypa milleporacea2 sites
- Pachydictya cyclostomoides2 sites
- Revalotrypa gibbosa2 sites
- Stomatopora arachnoidea2 sites
- Anolotichia impolita1 site
- Anolotichia sacculus1 site
- Arthroclema armatum1 site
- Batostoma fertile1 site
- Batostoma granulosum1 site
- Ceramoporella granulosa1 site
- Chasmatopora furcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diplotrypa bicornis, 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 7 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 Diplotrypa bicornis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Bekker
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiplotrypa through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1829