Dictyothyris smithi
No picture of Dictyothyris smithi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Dictyothyris smithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DictyothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Dictyothyris smithi on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
18 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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 Dictyothyris smithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dictyothyris smithi and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Dictyothyris smithi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Dorsoplicathyris tenuiplicata14 sites
- Sphenorhynchia ferryi13 sites
- Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata12 sites
- Dorsoplicathyris ovalis11 sites
- Zeilleria biappendiculata10 sites
- Septaliphoria orbignyana9 sites
- Digonella divionensis8 sites
- Rhynchonella minuta8 sites
- Rhynchonelloidella varians8 sites
- Aromasithyris balinensis7 sites
- Aulacothyris pala7 sites
- Aromasithyris mazenoti6 sites
- Dorsoplicathyris mangoldi4 sites
- Laevigaterhynchia triplicosa4 sites
- Ptyctothyris subcanaliculata4 sites
- Formosarhynchia spathica3 sites
- Rhynchonella3 sites
- Rhynchonella funiculata3 sites
- Zeilleria subrugata3 sites
- Zeilleria umbonella3 sites
- Aulacothyris hypocirta2 sites
- Proplanulites2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Choffatia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dictyothyris smithi, 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
2 references- Les terebratulidae du Dogger dans le Mâconnais, le mont d'Or lyonnais et le Jura méridional: Étude systématique et biostratigraphique. Rapports avec la paléoécologie17
- La succession des faunes dans le Callovien Francais, essais de corrélation à l'échelle de la zone1
Each of the 18 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
Media content0
No picture of Dictyothyris smithi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Dictyothyris smithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dictyothyris smithi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itDictyothyris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppel 1857)