Dactylophycus quadripartitus

No picture of Dactylophycus quadripartitus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dactylophycus quadripartitus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DactylophycusPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 468 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486.9 Mya467.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Dactylophycus quadripartitus 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

1 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

1 formation

Powers Steps — 47.63°N, 52.99°W

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

Dactylophycus quadripartitus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dactylophycus quadripartitus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dactylophycus quadripartitus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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No picture of Dactylophycus quadripartitus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dactylophycus quadripartitus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Dyer 1878