Dictyoxylon

No picture of Dictyoxylon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyoxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteridospermophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 4.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 316.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.4 Mya318.7 Mya330.8 Mya316.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Dictyoxylon on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

2 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

1 formation

Mospyne — 48.24°N, 39.30°E

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The named rock units Dictyoxylon 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.

Dictyoxylon and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyoxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dictyoxylon, 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

Each of the 2 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 Dictyoxylon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyoxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPteridospermophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williamson 1869