Dictyoneuridae

Dictyoneuridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyoneuroideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 320 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 321.3 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 64 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 67 occurrencesPermian322–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–319 Mya — about 2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–315 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 4 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 4 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 4 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 7 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 8 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–304 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 8 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 8 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 9 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 5 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320 Mya290.1 Mya322.1 Mya282.5 Mya

67 occurrences of Dictyoneuridae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

67 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

13 formations

Commentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°EGeisheck — 49.26°N, 7.00°EGeisheck — 49.38°N, 7.25°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.30°N, 7.05°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.29°N, 7.03°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.38°N, 7.25°EAuerswald coal seam — 49.24°N, 6.93°ESaarbrücken — 49.32°N, 7.07°EBurguklinskaya — 64.10°N, 87.60°EBurkguklinian suite — 65.85°N, 88.45°ELancashire middle Coal Measure — 53.45°N, 2.78°WAlykaevskaya — 55.13°N, 86.78°EUpper Hagen Beds — 51.36°N, 7.25°EShanxi — 37.83°N, 112.40°EFlénu — 50.44°N, 3.83°ECorona — 46.55°N, 13.31°E

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The named rock units Dictyoneuridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyoneuridae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyoneuridae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Dictyoneuridae, 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

32 references

Each of the 67 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. 20 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 content2

Picture of Dictyoneuridae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itDictyoneuroidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906