Diplopodia

Diplopodia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplopodiidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 86 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 9 of 86 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 18 of 86 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 53 of 86 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 86 occurrencesLate Cretaceous202–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–194 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 5 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 3 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 8 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 5 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 9 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 11 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 11 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 4 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 6 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 5 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192.9 Mya93.9 Mya202 Mya88 Mya

86 occurrences of Diplopodia on record, most of them in the Early 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

86 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

25 formations

Zone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ERisan Aneiza — 31.00°N, 33.50°ERisan Aneiza — 30.79°N, 33.48°EAgoudim — 32.28°N, 4.42°WAgoudim — 32.27°N, 4.51°WWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESt-Ursanne — 47.37°N, 7.17°EGlen Rose Limestone — 30.28°N, 98.87°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°EOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WCoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WCoral Rag — 51.77°N, 1.25°WSteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°EMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WMarnes à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°EGongila — 11.03°N, 11.35°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EMormon — 40.08°N, 120.84°WMt. Lysa — 50.89°N, 21.67°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EComanche Peak Limestone — 30.67°N, 97.63°W

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The named rock units Diplopodia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplopodia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Diplopodia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

820 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Diplopodia, 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

32 references

Each of the 86 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. 20 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 content1

Picture of Diplopodia

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplopodia 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 itDiplopodiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.