Dictyonema pulchellum

No picture of Dictyonema pulchellum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyonema pulchellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyonemaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dendroidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Dictyonema
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dendroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At most 9.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487.4 Mya476.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Dictyonema pulchellum 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

2 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

1 formation

Aorangi Mine — 40.68°S, 172.68°EAorangi Mine — 40.72°S, 172.44°E

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

Dictyonema pulchellum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dictyonema pulchellum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dictyonema pulchellum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dictyonema pulchellum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyonema pulchellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyonema pulchellum 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 itDictyonema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1899