Dicoelosia

Dicoelosia is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Early Devonian in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

Dicoelosia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DicoelosiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 55 of 464 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 360 of 464 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 49 of 464 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 20 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 10 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 9 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 21 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 28 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 32 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 26 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 22 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 22 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 23 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 44 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 41 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 23 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 19 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 17 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 14 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 10 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 9 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 8 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 14 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 16 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 7 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 4 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 4 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences449.5 Mya413.02 Mya453.8 Mya409.8 Mya

464 occurrences of Dicoelosia 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

464 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

123 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°ESolvik — 59.82°N, 10.46°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 35.00°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHenryhouse — 34.11°N, 97.20°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WRoberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRoberts Mountain — 39.94°N, 116.32°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.68°N, 25.37°EPaprieniai — 56.00°N, 25.84°EPaprieniai — 54.47°N, 24.62°ERacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WVelise — 58.36°N, 23.86°EVelise — 58.46°N, 26.33°EVelise — 58.00°N, 22.03°EVelise — 58.45°N, 22.56°EVelise — 58.64°N, 23.03°EVelise — 58.12°N, 22.19°EVelise — 58.42°N, 22.50°EVelise — 57.80°N, 23.24°EVelise — 58.25°N, 22.49°EIrondequoit — 43.25°N, 76.72°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSvencionys — 55.67°N, 25.38°ESvencionys — 55.31°N, 26.59°ESvencionys — 56.00°N, 25.84°ESvencionys — 55.24°N, 23.51°ESvencionys — 55.22°N, 23.87°EJaani — 58.28°N, 24.09°EJaani — 58.25°N, 22.49°EJaani — 57.88°N, 24.37°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.54°EJaani — 58.36°N, 23.86°EWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WKangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WFosses — 50.39°N, 4.60°EFosses — 50.41°N, 4.91°ERoberts Mountains — 39.94°N, 116.31°WRoberts Mountains — 39.90°N, 116.36°WCape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WWaldron Shale — 35.00°N, 88.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.88°WRiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°ERiga — 55.00°N, 23.30°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.77°N, 13.25°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WHaragan — 34.48°N, 96.50°W

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The named rock units Dicoelosia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 99 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicoelosia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dicoelosia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 423 sites for Dicoelosia, and this reads 240 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

106 references

Each of the 464 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. 94 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 content2

Picture of Dicoelosia

Credit
Notafly
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itDicoelosiidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1850