Derivatolites
No picture of Derivatolites 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 Derivatolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StelliporellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Derivatolites 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Derivatolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Derivatolites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Derivatolites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Tuvaelites3 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Mesofavosites2 sites
- Stylopleura2 sites
- Aesopomum1 site
- Altaja1 site
- Altaya tenuiseptata1 site
- Amphistrophiella funiculata1 site
- Anastrophia deflexa1 site
- Ancyrochitina1 site
- Antirhynchonella linguifera1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Bumastus barriensis1 site
- Calymene blumenbachii1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Conchidium1 site
- Conochitina1 site
- Cyclocyclicus1 site
- Cyrtia1 site
- Dalejina hybrida1 site
- Densostromapodicum sp.1 site
- Diplophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Derivatolites, 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- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China2
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Obyem novogo semeystva Stelliporellidae (geliolitidy) [Members of the new family Stelliporellidae, subclass Heliolitoidea]1
Each of the 4 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 Derivatolites 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 Derivatolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Derivatolites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStelliporellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bondarenko 1971