Dyscritella fruticosa
No picture of Dyscritella fruticosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Dyscritella fruticosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DyscritellaPBDB
- 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 least 8.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Dyscritella fruticosa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dyscritella fruticosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dyscritella fruticosa and its relatives
PermianWhere Dyscritella fruticosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Fenestella clivosa1 site
- Fenestella gruntae1 site
- Flexifenestella eichwaldi1 site
- Mackinneyella brevicellata1 site
- Nikiforovella explicata1 site
- Polyporella lyndoni1 site
- Polyporella quadricella1 site
- Prismopora lanceolata1 site
- Prismopora pyramidalis1 site
- Spinofenestella tschernovi1 site
- Streblascopora vulgaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dyscritella fruticosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Dyscritella fruticosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Dyscritella fruticosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dyscritella fruticosa 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 itDyscritella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorjunova 1970