Dalmanella parva
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
71 occurrences of Dalmanella parva 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
71 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
7 formations
- Ffairfach Flags and Grits Formation · Ffairfach Group26
- Flags and Grits Formation26
- Ffairfach Ashes and Lavas Formation11
- Ffairfach Conglomerates Formation · Ffairfach Group3
- Ffairfach Pebbly Sands Formation · Ffairfach Group2
- Ffairfach Conglomerate Formation · Ffairfach Group2
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The named rock units Dalmanella parva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dalmanella parva and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dalmanella parva and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Bryozoa60 sites
- Trepostomata60 sites
- Basilicus tyrannus57 sites
- Hyalostelia53 sites
- Crinoidea48 sites
- Trilobita47 sites
- Macrocoelia llandeiloensis41 sites
- Brachiopoda40 sites
- Triplesia edgelliana34 sites
- Tallinnella32 sites
- Horderleyella28 sites
- Marrolithus27 sites
- Flexicalymene cambrensis25 sites
- Glyptorthis viriosa23 sites
- Cryptostomata20 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua19 sites
- Rostricellula17 sites
- Prasopora16 sites
- Gelidorthis12 sites
- Tissintia immatura11 sites
- Conularida indet.9 sites
- Salopia9 sites
- Atractopyge5 sites
- Kullervo5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Dalmanella parva, 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 71 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 Dalmanella parva
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Dalmanella parva 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 itDalmanella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1949