Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri
No picture of Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Dechenella (Dechenella)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri 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
2 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 Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri and its relatives
DevonianWhere Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Animalia1 site
- Basidechenella1 site
- Basidechenella canaliculata1 site
- Basidechenella lucasensis1 site
- Belenopyge contusa1 site
- Ceratolichas gryps1 site
- Coronura1 site
- Crassiproetus halliturgidus1 site
- Crassiproetus traversensis1 site
- Echinolichas eriopis1 site
- Mystrocephala1 site
- Odontocephalus1 site
- Trypaulites calypso1 site
- Viaphacops pipa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri, 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- Silicified trilobites from the Devonian Jeffersonville Limestone at the Falls of the Ohio1
- Lower Middle Devonian proetid trilobites from Michigan, southwestern Ontario, and northern Ohio1
Each of the 2 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 Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dechenella (Dechenella) welleri 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 itDechenella (Dechenella) through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stauffer 1909)