Dithyrocaris

Dithyrocaris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinocarididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya318.7 Mya389 Mya314 Mya

6 occurrences of Dithyrocaris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

6 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

5 formations

Silica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WChagrin Shale — 41.70°N, 81.15°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.53°N, 2.51°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°ELimestone Coal — 55.92°N, 4.33°W

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The named rock units Dithyrocaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dithyrocaris and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dithyrocaris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dithyrocaris, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Dithyrocaris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dithyrocaris 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 itRhinocarididae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.