Dimorphichnus obliquus

No picture of Dimorphichnus obliquus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dimorphichnus obliquus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimorphichnusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician522–520 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 Mya486.4 Mya521.9 Mya476.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Dimorphichnus obliquus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

3 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

2 formations

Pedroche — 37.95°N, 4.77°WBeach — 47.62°N, 52.94°W

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

Dimorphichnus obliquus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dimorphichnus obliquus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dimorphichnus obliquus, 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 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dimorphichnus obliquus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dimorphichnus obliquus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Dimorphichnus obliquus 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 itDimorphichnus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seilacher 1955