Dielasma prolongatum

Dielasma prolongatum

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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 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Dielasma prolongatum 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

11 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

4 formations

Capitan — 31.99°N, 104.78°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.56°WCapitan — 31.92°N, 104.82°WCapitan — 31.89°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WVidrio — 30.24°N, 103.44°WBell Canyon — 31.90°N, 104.82°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°W

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

Dielasma prolongatum and its relatives

Permian

Where Dielasma prolongatum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dielasma prolongatum, 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 11 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

Media content1

Picture of Dielasma prolongatum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dielasma prolongatum 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. Girty 1909