Decipilites
No picture of Decipilites 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 Decipilites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Decipilites 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Decipilites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Decipilites and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Decipilites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Aegiria5 sites
- Ctenodonta4 sites
- Duftonia4 sites
- Actinopeltis3 sites
- Dindymene3 sites
- Mespilocystites3 sites
- Mimospira3 sites
- Mucronaspis3 sites
- Mucronaspis ganabina3 sites
- Mucronaspis grandis3 sites
- Ravozetina3 sites
- Salopina3 sites
- Sluha kosoviensis3 sites
- Acanthambonia2 sites
- Anatifopsis2 sites
- Anoptambonites monetus2 sites
- Bojokoralaspis peregrina2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Cheirocrinus2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Conotreta2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Cyclospira2 sites
- Cyrtodiscus evolvens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Decipilites, 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
3 references- Kralodvor-Kosoviensis boundary at the Late Ordovician environmental changes in the Prague Basin (Barrandian Area, Bohemia)4
- Earliest occurrence of the Hirnantia Fauna in the Prague Basin (Czech Republic)1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Decipilites 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 Decipilites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Decipilites 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 itHyolithida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.