Dictyosphaera macroreticulata

No picture of Dictyosphaera macroreticulata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyosphaera macroreticulata 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
DictyosphaeraPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 400 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1800 Mya and 1400 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

1808–1794 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1794–1780 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1780–1766 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1766–1753 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1753–1739 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1739–1725 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1725–1711 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1711–1697 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1697–1683 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1683–1669 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1669–1655 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1655–1642 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1642–1628 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1628–1614 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1614–1600 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1600–1586 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1586–1572 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1572–1558 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1558–1545 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1545–1531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1531–1517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1517–1503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1503–1489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1489–1475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1475–1461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1461–1447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1447–1434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1434–1420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1420–1406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1406–1392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1808 Mya1392 Mya

6 occurrences of Dictyosphaera macroreticulata on record. 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

6 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

Blue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EChuanlinggou — 40.20°N, 117.50°EGreyson — 46.67°N, 110.88°W

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

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dictyosphaera macroreticulata, 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 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dictyosphaera macroreticulata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyosphaera macroreticulata 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.

No 3D scan of Dictyosphaera macroreticulata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itDictyosphaera through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Xing and Liu 1973