Distichoplax biserialis

Distichoplax biserialis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DistichoplaxPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 135 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 135 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 91 of 135 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 43 of 135 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 135 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 135 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 12 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 65 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 20 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 12 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya102 Mya21 Mya

135 occurrences of Distichoplax biserialis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

135 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

32 formations

Lakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.27°N, 91.73°ENavarri — 42.40°N, 0.40°ESerraduy — 42.41°N, 0.40°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°EBarra Honda — 10.34°N, 85.39°WSouth Galala — 28.90°N, 32.32°ESouth Galala — 29.92°N, 32.35°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EBaratang — 12.19°N, 92.84°EBaratang — 12.89°N, 92.90°EBaratang — 12.84°N, 92.85°EBaratang — 12.79°N, 92.87°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EZelten — 29.28°N, 20.75°ETaleh Zang — 33.28°N, 47.83°ELakadong Limesetone — 29.03°N, 77.00°ELubina — 48.79°N, 17.69°EKravarikovci — 49.11°N, 18.44°EBiely Potok — 49.34°N, 19.65°EProc — 49.05°N, 21.46°EProc — 48.81°N, 22.32°EEsplugafreda — 42.32°N, 0.57°EShella — 25.43°N, 92.25°ETrstelj — 45.70°N, 13.90°ESylhet — 25.23°N, 91.58°ELaladong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°EKambuhel — 47.60°N, 13.20°EDereciflik — 37.81°N, 29.37°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°E

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The named rock units Distichoplax biserialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distichoplax biserialis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Distichoplax biserialis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Distichoplax biserialis, 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

35 references

Each of the 135 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. 23 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 content1

Picture of Distichoplax biserialis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Distichoplax biserialis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dieterich 1927)