Dictyocyathus

Dictyocyathus

Debrenne, Françoise · CC BY 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
DictyocyathidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 162 of 162 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 4 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 4 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 4 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 4 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 4 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 4 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 4 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 9 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 11 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 11 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 11 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 11 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 11 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 11 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 11 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 9 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 7 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 7 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 7 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 7 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 7 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 6 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya516 Mya526 Mya507.7 Mya

162 occurrences of Dictyocyathus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

162 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

31 formations

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EPestrotsvet — 61.02°N, 126.15°EPestrotsvet — 61.03°N, 126.13°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°EPestrotsvet — 61.07°N, 126.18°EUpper Shangan — 51.40°N, 94.23°EMatoppa — 39.27°N, 8.47°EMatoppa — 39.18°N, 8.55°EMatoppa — 39.35°N, 8.45°EMatoppa — 39.40°N, 8.45°EMatoppa — 39.37°N, 8.52°EUst'kundat — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.25°EUpper Monok — 52.40°N, 89.07°EXiannudong — 32.50°N, 108.50°EXiannudong — 32.47°N, 107.23°EPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.97°WPuerto Blanco — 30.27°N, 112.03°WBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°ETorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°ESalaany Gol — 46.87°N, 95.80°EZwethau — 51.63°N, 13.55°EIl'chir — 51.88°N, 94.42°EKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°EKrasnoporog — 67.14°N, 86.75°EAmouslek — 30.38°N, 8.68°WAmouslek — 30.38°N, 8.80°WTyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°ETyuser — 71.00°N, 127.65°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°EPedroche — 37.92°N, 4.82°WIssafen — 30.80°N, 8.20°WIssafen — 30.23°N, 8.87°WKotuy — 68.68°N, 105.03°EKotuy — 69.02°N, 103.85°ETodd River Dolomite — 23.52°S, 134.47°ETodd River Dolomite — 23.90°S, 134.33°EBazaikha — 55.97°N, 92.92°ELower Shangan — 51.40°N, 94.23°EIssafene — 31.87°N, 8.87°WVerkhneynyrga — 52.57°N, 85.25°E

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The named rock units Dictyocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyocyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dictyocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Dictyocyathus, 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

31 references

Each of the 162 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. 18 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 Dictyocyathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Debrenne, Françoise
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itDictyocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.