Dromilites

Dromilites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya13 Mya

18 occurrences of Dromilites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

18 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

8 formations

London Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.15°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.70°WCastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ETortachilla — 35.13°S, 138.48°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WCalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EKambuhel — 47.75°N, 16.03°E

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The named rock units Dromilites 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.

Dromilites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dromilites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

441 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Dromilites, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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 Dromilites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dromilites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itDromiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1837