Dickinsonia elongata

No picture of Dickinsonia elongata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dickinsonia elongata itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dickinsonia elongata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DickinsoniaPBDB
Diet
osmotrophPBDB, for Dickinsonia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dickinsonia
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dickinsonia
Environment
inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Dickinsonia

Time the record covers

At most 97 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1 occurrence637–634 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences634–630 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences630–627 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences627–624 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences624–620 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences620–617 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences617–614 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences614–610 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences610–607 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences607–604 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences604–600 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences600–597 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences597–594 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences594–590 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences590–587 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences587–584 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences584–580 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences580–577 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences577–574 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences574–570 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences570–567 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences567–564 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences564–560 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences560–557 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences557–554 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences554–550 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences550–547 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences547–544 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences544–540 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences540–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences637 Mya537 Mya

1 occurrence of Dickinsonia elongata on record. 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

1 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

1 formation

Rawnsley Quartzite — 30.85°S, 138.13°E

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

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dickinsonia elongata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Dickinsonia elongata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dickinsonia elongata itself, so it was not used.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dickinsonia elongata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Dickinsonia elongata 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 itDickinsonia through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glaessner and Wade 1966