Dianulites

Dianulites is an extinct genus of bryozoans from the early Ordovician period, belonging to the family Dianulitidae. Its colonies can be turbinate, horn-shaped, conical, or massive and hemispherical. Individual zooecia take the form of long, thin-walled polygonal tubes. It lacks styles (acanthopores), which helps differentiate it from similar genus Nicholsonella.

Dianulites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HalloporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 69 occurrencesOrdovician — about 69 of 69 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 69 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 6 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 7 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471.3 Mya445.2 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

69 occurrences of Dianulites 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

69 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

28 formations

Kandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVolkhov — 59.96°N, 32.35°EVolkhov — 60.05°N, 32.59°EVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKruzhilikha — 79.94°N, 97.22°EKruzhilikha — 79.23°N, 97.89°EKruzhilikha — 79.23°N, 97.97°EKruzhilikha — 79.22°N, 98.07°EBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°EBromide — 34.48°N, 96.97°WKorgessaare — 58.90°N, 22.70°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 60.03°N, 32.63°ECopenhagen — 39.98°N, 116.27°WDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°ERidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WAngir — 68.00°N, 88.00°EWuLigMeiTag — 41.00°N, 86.00°EAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WVerulam — 44.53°N, 78.98°WVaginatumkalk — 59.42°N, 24.75°ECarters Limestone — 35.02°N, 86.93°WRägavere — 59.35°N, 26.36°EPakri — 59.42°N, 24.75°EProsser — 45.37°N, 75.72°WLyckholm — 59.05°N, 24.03°EObukhovo — 59.68°N, 30.43°EYeongheung — 37.23°N, 128.43°ETozodov — 51.75°N, 87.28°E

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The named rock units Dianulites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dianulites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dianulites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

534 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Dianulites, 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

23 references

Each of the 69 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Dianulites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dianulites 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1829