Dictyodora

No picture of Dictyodora was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyodora firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 335.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous480–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences338–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468 Mya339.9 Mya480 Mya333 Mya

3 occurrences of Dictyodora on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

3 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

3 formations

Armorican Quartzite — 41.00°N, 1.00°WKulmschiefer — 43.78°N, 18.75°ELas Placetas — 28.91°S, 69.81°W

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The named rock units Dictyodora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dictyodora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dictyodora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dictyodora, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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No picture of Dictyodora was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyodora firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weiss 1884