Dictyothykalos sp.
No picture of Dictyothykalos sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyothykalos sp. 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dictyothykalos sp. on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Dictyothykalos sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dictyothykalos sp. and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Dictyothykalos sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Cladophlebis4 sites
- Cladophlebis constricta4 sites
- Diettertia montanensis4 sites
- Marchantiolites blairmorensis4 sites
- Sagenopteris williamsii4 sites
- Spermatophyta4 sites
- Sphenopteris latiloba4 sites
- Pseudocycas douglasii3 sites
- Zamites arcticus3 sites
- Cladophlebis oerstedi2 sites
- Coniopteris hymenophylloides2 sites
- Coniopteris simplex2 sites
- Klukia canadensis2 sites
- Minerisporites2 sites
- Sagenopteris elliptica2 sites
- Sagenopteris mclearni2 sites
- Sphenopteris mclearni2 sites
- Acrostichopteris longipennis1 site
- Cladophlebis virginiensis1 site
- Equisetum montanense1 site
- Hausmannia montanensis1 site
- Metzgeriites montanensis1 site
- Sphenopteris1 site
- Sphenopteris brulensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dictyothykalos sp., 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 referenceEach of the 4 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 Dictyothykalos sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyothykalos sp. 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.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Dictyothykalos sp. 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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.