Dicoelosia paralata

Rubel, Madis · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicoelosiaPBDB
- 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 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 433.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
25 occurrences of Dicoelosia paralata 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
25 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
10 formations
- Paprieniai Formation4
- Svencionys Formation4
- Riga Formation3
- Jurmala Formation2
- Velise Formation2
- Demshin Subsuite Formation1
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The named rock units Dicoelosia paralata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dicoelosia paralata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Dicoelosia paralata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Dicoelosia baltica10 sites
- Eoplectodonta duvalii9 sites
- Lissatrypa obovata9 sites
- Visbyella visbyensis9 sites
- Dalejina hybrida8 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba8 sites
- Jonesea grayi8 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum8 sites
- Resserella sabrinae8 sites
- Skenidioides lewisii8 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)6 sites
- Isorthis6 sites
- Plagiorhyncha6 sites
- Clorinda5 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus5 sites
- Streptis grayii5 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) hedei4 sites
- Mendacella4 sites
- Mesopholidostrophia laevigata4 sites
- Nucleospira pisum4 sites
- Pentlandella4 sites
- Atrypa hedei3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Glyptorthis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Dicoelosia paralata, 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
10 references- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia9
- The brachiopod genus Dicoelosia from the Baltic Silurian3
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia2
- Brachiopod communities of the Lithuanian Silurian2
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Pilviškiai - 141 borehole2
- Brachiopod and Conodont Distribution at the Wenlock - Ludlow boundary of Lithuania2
- Experience of Brachiopod community separation from the Silurian of Lithuania2
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian1
- Latest Ordovician-Silurian articulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Avalanche Lake area, southwestern District of Mackenzie, Canada1
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Vilkaviskis-129 boring1
Each of the 25 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. 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 Dicoelosia paralata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rubel, Madis
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dicoelosia paralata 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.
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What may have been alongside itDicoelosia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassett 1972