Distefania

No picture of Distefania was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Distefania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniodromitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Goniodromitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous151–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya83.6 Mya151 Mya71 Mya

24 occurrences of Distefania on record, most of them in the Early 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

24 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

10 formations

Eguino — 42.88°N, 2.20°WErnstbrunn — 48.55°N, 16.35°EGault — 51.94°N, 0.64°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WBernissart Calcirudites — 50.60°N, 3.38°EShenley Limestone — 51.94°N, 0.65°WCambridge Greensand — 52.20°N, 0.13°EZapotitlán — 18.42°N, 97.46°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.11°EUpper Greensand — 50.79°N, 3.12°W

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The named rock units Distefania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distefania and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Distefania and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Distefania, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Distefania was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Distefania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Distefania 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 itGoniodromitidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Checchia-Rispoli 1917