Dioristella indistincta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DioristellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 24 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 21 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic249–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–228 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–228 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247 Mya233.6 Mya249.1 Mya226.8 Mya

24 occurrences of Dioristella indistincta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

24 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

10 formations

Korytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°EKorytnica Limestones — 49.08°N, 19.33°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.33°N, 17.64°ETisovec Limestone — 20.00°N, 48.00°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.00°N, 15.00°ESándorhegy — 46.98°N, 17.88°EVeszprém Marl — 47.09°N, 17.90°ELunz — 47.83°N, 14.99°ELoulou — 25.46°N, 106.75°E

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The named rock units Dioristella indistincta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dioristella indistincta and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Dioristella indistincta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

862 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Dioristella indistincta, 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

12 references

Each of the 24 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

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No picture of Dioristella indistincta 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 Dioristella indistincta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dioristella indistincta 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 itDioristella through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beyrich 1862)