Dictyothylakos

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya60 Mya

16 occurrences of Dictyothylakos 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

16 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

8 formations

Brazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WGrand Rapids — 53.77°N, 113.06°WGrand Rapids — 53.73°N, 112.11°WClearwater — 53.73°N, 112.11°WKachaike — 49.15°S, 72.07°WPatuxent — 38.83°N, 77.12°WDakota — 38.90°N, 98.86°WScollard — 52.72°N, 116.00°WRintoul Creek — 38.12°S, 146.50°E

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The named rock units Dictyothylakos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyothylakos and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dictyothylakos and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dictyothylakos, 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

7 references

Each of the 16 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

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No picture of Dictyothylakos was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dictyothylakos 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 Dictyothylakos 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horst 1954