Dictyotomaria capillaria

Dictyotomaria capillaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyotomariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 45 of 46 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesCarboniferous395–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 4 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 5 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 15 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 15 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 3 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387.95 Mya358.86 Mya395 Mya322 Mya

46 occurrences of Dictyotomaria capillaria on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

46 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

12 formations

Moscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.66°N, 75.38°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.60°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.62°N, 75.33°WMoscow — 42.64°N, 75.17°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.95°WMarcellus — 42.95°N, 75.67°WMarcellus — 42.90°N, 75.60°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMarcellus — 41.97°N, 74.00°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WTully — 42.66°N, 75.38°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.22°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WJaycox — 42.82°N, 77.29°WGenundewa — 42.73°N, 77.32°WBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°W

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

Dictyotomaria capillaria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dictyotomaria capillaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Dictyotomaria capillaria, 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

13 references

Each of the 46 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Dictyotomaria capillaria

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No 3D scan of Dictyotomaria capillaria 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 itDictyotomaria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)