Decaschisma lorae
No picture of Decaschisma lorae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Decaschisma lorae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DecaschismaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Decaschisma lorae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Decaschisma lorae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Decaschisma lorae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Decaschisma lorae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Camerata1 site
- Dimerocrinites1 site
- Dolatocrinus1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Eohalysiocrinus1 site
- Haplistion1 site
- Lecanocrinus1 site
- Myelodactylidae1 site
- Sievertsia1 site
- Stiptocrinus1 site
- Tentaculida indet.1 site
- Thalamocrinus1 site
- Theloreus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Decaschisma lorae, 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
2 references- Echinoderm faunas of the Decatur Limestone and Ross Formation (Upper Silurian to Lower Devonian) of west-central Tennessee2
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Decaschisma lorae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Decaschisma lorae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Decaschisma lorae 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.
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What may have been alongside itDecaschisma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunbar 1920)