Dipleura

Dipleura is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It was described by Green in 1832, and the type species is Dipleura dekayi. The type locality was in the Hamilton Group in New York.

Dipleura

Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HomalonotinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Homalonotidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 69 occurrencesDevonian — about 69 of 69 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 14 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 14 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 14 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 15 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 7 occurrences393.47 Mya383.4 Mya420.4 Mya381.6 Mya

69 occurrences of Dipleura on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

69 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

9 formations

Skaneateles — 42.80°N, 76.69°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.47°WSkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.15°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 75.57°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 43.00°N, 75.41°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.42°WSkaneateles — 42.79°N, 75.27°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.82°N, 75.10°WSkaneateles — 42.81°N, 74.94°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WIdri — 27.50°N, 13.50°EIdri — 27.40°N, 13.20°ETully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.87°WOuan Kasa — 27.00°N, 10.00°EKerbelec — 48.40°N, 4.48°WCentral Valley Sandstone — 41.35°N, 74.11°W

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

Dipleura and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dipleura and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Dipleura, 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

14 references

Each of the 69 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. 2 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Dipleura

Credit
Tiia Monto
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHomalonotinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Green 1832