Dictyoconus

Dictyoconus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbitolinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 37 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 6 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 9 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya23.04 Mya128 Mya14 Mya

37 occurrences of Dictyoconus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

37 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

9 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°EStuart City — 30.00°N, 96.00°WStuart City — 28.58°N, 97.02°WAvon Park — 29.25°N, 82.73°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ESuwannee Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°ECiolo Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.43°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°E

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The named rock units Dictyoconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoconus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Dictyoconus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Dictyoconus, 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

14 references

Each of the 37 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. 2 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 Dictyoconus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itOrbitolinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.