Dalmanites myops
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 421.3 Mya.
14 occurrences of Dalmanites myops on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
14 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Lower Bringewood Formation4
- Upper Bringewood Formation4
- Middle Elton Formation2
- Lower Elton Formation1
- Much Wenlock Formation1
- Bringewood Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Dalmanites myops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dalmanites myops and its relatives
SilurianWhere Dalmanites myops and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Isorthis12 sites
- Shagamella10 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni10 sites
- Atrypa reticularis9 sites
- Bryozoa9 sites
- Gypidula9 sites
- Strophoprion euglypha9 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa8 sites
- Anthozoa7 sites
- Craniops7 sites
- Howellella elegans7 sites
- Mesoleptostrophia filosa7 sites
- Mesopholidostrophia laevigata6 sites
- Amphistrophiella funiculata5 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Cephalopoda5 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula5 sites
- Protochonetes minimus5 sites
- Pseudolingula lewisii5 sites
- Actinopteria4 sites
- Jonesea grayi4 sites
- Mesopholidostrophia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Dalmanites myops, 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
6 references- Atkins' Lower Bringewood associations of Wales and the Welsh Borderland4
- Carbonate shelf environments and faunal communities in the Upper Bringewood Beds of the British Silurian4
- Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland3
- Late Silurian trilobite palaeobiology and biodiversity1
- Carbonate depositional environments, sequence stratigraphy and exceptional skeletal preservation in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation (Silurian) of Dudley, England1
- Calef and Hancock's Ludlow communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
Each of the 14 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 content2
Picture of Dalmanites myops
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Fossils in Shropshire
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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. (König 1825)