Dicranopeltis

Dicranopeltis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DicranopeltiniPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 448.8 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 454 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 74 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 54 of 74 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 74 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 8 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448.8 Mya426.7 Mya454.7 Mya418.9 Mya

74 occurrences of Dicranopeltis 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

74 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

34 formations

Motol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 50.05°N, 14.37°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.32°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.13°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°ERacine Dolomite — 41.67°N, 88.00°WRacine Dolomite — 43.00°N, 88.00°WRacine Dolomite — 38.97°N, 90.43°WRacine Dolomite — 41.12°N, 88.02°WRacine Dolomite — 42.72°N, 87.78°WRacine Dolomite — 41.57°N, 87.60°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WCystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WZelkovice — 50.01°N, 14.09°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WHopkinton Dolomite — 42.23°N, 91.18°WHopkinton Dolomite — 41.98°N, 90.73°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.13°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°ELangåra — 59.88°N, 10.72°ELangåra — 59.85°N, 10.53°EHusbergøya — 59.88°N, 10.72°EHusbergøya — 59.85°N, 10.53°ENewlands Farm — 55.28°N, 4.74°WGazelle — 41.47°N, 122.59°WHusbergoya Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°ECape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WLangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°ESamuelsen Høj — 80.00°N, 22.00°WSugar Run Dolomite — 41.67°N, 88.00°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WBronydd — 52.67°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°W

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The named rock units Dicranopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicranopeltis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dicranopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,090 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Dicranopeltis, 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

35 references

Each of the 74 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. 23 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 Dicranopeltis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dicranopeltis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847