Diplodictyon heteromorphum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplodictyonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Diplodictyon heteromorphum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diplodictyon heteromorphum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diplodictyon heteromorphum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Diplodictyon heteromorphum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Ancistrocrania3 sites
- Anthophyllum3 sites
- Cyclothyris3 sites
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata3 sites
- Praelacazella3 sites
- Spondylus3 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte)2 sites
- Atreta2 sites
- Botroclonium arborescens2 sites
- Chonella2 sites
- Cystispongia morchella2 sites
- Cytoracia2 sites
- Guettardiscyphia2 sites
- Hyotissa semiplana2 sites
- Isocrinus2 sites
- Isocrinus lanceolatus2 sites
- Laocoetis2 sites
- Laocoetis vulgata2 sites
- Metopaster2 sites
- Onychocella2 sites
- Onychocella reussi2 sites
- Pomatoceros2 sites
- Porifera2 sites
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Diplodictyon heteromorphum, 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
3 references- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)2
- Late Cretaceous nautilid beaks from near-shore/shallow water deposits of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic)1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 4 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 Diplodictyon heteromorphum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Diplodictyon heteromorphum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diplodictyon heteromorphum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDiplodictyon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1845)