Destombesia

No picture of Destombesia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Destombesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiploporitaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Diploporita
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Diploporita
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diploporita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Diploporita
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.7 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.1 Mya445.2 Mya460.2 Mya442.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Destombesia 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

5 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

3 formations

Upper Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.25°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°WLower Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 8.50°WLower Ktaoua — 31.23°N, 4.53°WBancos Mixtos — 39.00°N, 4.00°W

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The named rock units Destombesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Destombesia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Destombesia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Destombesia, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Destombesia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Destombesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiploporita through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.