Dielasma compactum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DielasmaPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Dielasma compactum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
15 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dielasma compactum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dielasma compactum and its relatives
PermianWhere Dielasma compactum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
311 taxa- Meekella skenoides13 sites
- Composita parasulcata11 sites
- Derbyia pannucia11 sites
- Echinauris lateralis11 sites
- Heteralosia hystricula11 sites
- Derbyia filosa10 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) extensus10 sites
- Liosotella wordensis10 sites
- Cyclacantharia kingorum9 sites
- Heterelasma concavum9 sites
- Spiriferellina hilli9 sites
- Waagenoconcha magnifica9 sites
- Xenosteges quadratus9 sites
- Cactosteges anomalus8 sites
- Collemataria elongata8 sites
- Composita enormis8 sites
- Cooperina inexpectata8 sites
- Derbyia texta8 sites
- Dielasma zebratum8 sites
- Echinosteges tuberculatus8 sites
- Pseudodielasma8 sites
- Rhamnaria kingorum8 sites
- Rhynchopora palumbula8 sites
- Wellerella girtyi girtyi8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Dielasma compactum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 15 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 Dielasma compactum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access 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 Dielasma compactum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dielasma compactum 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 itDielasma through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976