Dala

Dala is an extinct genus of pancrustaceans from the Cambrian Orsten. The genus contains a single species, Dala peilertae.

A picture published with the record for Dala. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
BrachypodaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Cephalocarida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cephalocarida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cephalocarida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Cephalocarida

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 493.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Dala 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

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

Alum Shale — 58.50°N, 13.17°E

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

Dala and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dala and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dala, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dala

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dala 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBrachypoda through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1983