Dinobolus

Dinobolus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrimerellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trimerellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trimerellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Trimerellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Craniata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trimerellida

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 30 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 20 of 30 occurrencesSilurian478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 4 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468 Mya425 Mya478 Mya422 Mya

30 occurrences of Dinobolus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

30 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

12 formations

Racine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WGower — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGower — 42.05°N, 91.00°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WMotol — 50.00°N, 14.22°ELouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WSanted — 41.00°N, 1.00°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WNewlands — 55.31°N, 4.70°W

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The named rock units Dinobolus 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.

Dinobolus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dinobolus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Dinobolus, 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

13 references

Each of the 30 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Dinobolus

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

No 3D scan of Dinobolus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1871