Dentalium solidum

No picture of Dentalium solidum 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 Dentalium solidum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DentaliumPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 36.7 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 15 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36.7 Mya15.98 Mya39.6 Mya11.1 Mya

15 occurrences of Dentalium solidum on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

15 occurrences

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

6 formations

Naseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.15°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.24°S, 170.69°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EChatton — 46.01°S, 168.91°EMount Brown — 44.03°S, 170.72°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°E

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The named rock units Dentalium solidum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dentalium solidum and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Dentalium solidum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dentalium solidum, 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

Each of the 15 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 content0

No picture of Dentalium solidum 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 Dentalium solidum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dentalium solidum 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 itDentalium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hutton 1873