Dactyloidites
Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 523 million years on record.
The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 774 ka.
5 occurrences of Dactyloidites on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian80%
- Pleistocene20%
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 Dactyloidites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dactyloidites and its relatives
CambrianWhere Dactyloidites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Bergaueria perata2 sites
- Bilinichnus2 sites
- Cochlichnus2 sites
- Cosmorhaphe2 sites
- Cylindrichnus concentricus2 sites
- Dimorphichnus2 sites
- Dimorphichnus obliquus2 sites
- Diplichnites2 sites
- Lemdadella2 sites
- Monocraterion2 sites
- Palaeophycus2 sites
- Palaeophycus alternatus2 sites
- Phycodes2 sites
- Planolites annularis2 sites
- Planolites beverleyensis2 sites
- Planolites montanus2 sites
- Planolites striatus2 sites
- Psammichnites2 sites
- Psammichnites gigas2 sites
- Rusophycus didymus2 sites
- Skolithos2 sites
- Tiernavia2 sites
- Torrowangea2 sites
- Treptichnus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dactyloidites, 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
2 references- Trace and soft body fossils from the Pedroche Formation (Ovetian, Lower Cambrian of the Sierra de Córdoba, S Spain) and their relation to the Pedroche event4
- What Darwin did not see: Pleistocene fossil assemblages on a high energy coast at Ponta das Bicudas, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands1
Each of the 5 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 Dactyloidites
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dactyloidites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1886