Dybowskites clava

Öpik, Armin · 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
- DybowskitesPBDB
- 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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.9 Mya and 449.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dybowskites clava 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
3 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 Dybowskites clava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dybowskites clava and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dybowskites clava and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Ceramoporella granulosa2 sites
- Coeloclema crassimurale2 sites
- Constellaria varia2 sites
- Corynotrypa delicatula2 sites
- Eridotrypa aedilis2 sites
- Anaphragma mirabile1 site
- Archeopora punctata1 site
- Arthropora simplex1 site
- Arthrostylus conjunctus1 site
- Batostoma granulosum1 site
- Batostoma magnopora1 site
- Batostoma mickwitzi1 site
- Batostoma winchelli1 site
- Bythopora subgracilis1 site
- Ceramopora spongiosa1 site
- Ceramoporella uxnormensis1 site
- Chasmatopora reticulata1 site
- Crepipora incrassata1 site
- Crepipora schmidti1 site
- Dekayella praenuntia1 site
- Diplotrypa bicornis1 site
- Diplotrypa moniliformis1 site
- Diplotrypa petropolitana1 site
- Dittopora colliculata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dybowskites clava, 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 3 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 Dybowskites clava
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Öpik, Armin
- 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 itDybowskites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bassler 1911)