Dielasma truncatum

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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 least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
11 occurrences of Dielasma truncatum 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- 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Dielasma truncatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dielasma truncatum and its relatives
PermianWhere Dielasma truncatum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
187 taxa- Hemiptychina sparsiplicata5 sites
- Cleiothyridina globulina4 sites
- Cleiothyridina grossula4 sites
- Fredericksolasma nummulus4 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta4 sites
- Marginifera morrisi4 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana4 sites
- "Athyris" (Composita) globularis misriensis3 sites
- "Athyris" (Composita) globularis naruensis3 sites
- Aulosteges3 sites
- Bellerophon3 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis3 sites
- Callispirina ornata3 sites
- Cleiothyridina interposita3 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa3 sites
- Dielasma nexile3 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi3 sites
- Streptorhynchus lenticularis3 sites
- Streptorhynchus pelargonatus3 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni3 sites
- Terebratuloidea depressa3 sites
- Uncinella indica3 sites
- Ammonoidea2 sites
- Athyris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dielasma truncatum, 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
6 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range5
- The Permian of Mongolia2
- A new Changhsingian brachiopod fauna from the Xiala Formation at Tsochen in the central Lhasa Block and its paleogeographical implications1
- Kashirtsev, 19591
- Permian brachiopods from central Oregon1
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 11
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. 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 Dielasma truncatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dielasma truncatum 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. Waagen 1882