Dirrhopalum
No picture of Dirrhopalum 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 Dirrhopalum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonactinellidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
2 occurrences of Dirrhopalum 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Upper Chalk Formation1
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The named rock units Dirrhopalum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dirrhopalum and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Dirrhopalum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Axinella1 site
- Cheloniceras1 site
- Doryderma1 site
- Geodia clavata1 site
- Geodia coronata1 site
- Geodia wrightii1 site
- Geoditesia1 site
- Hyalostelia fusiformis1 site
- Mastosia1 site
- Plinthosella squamosa1 site
- Stauractinella cretacea1 site
- Thenea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dirrhopalum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Dirrhopalum 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 Dirrhopalum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dirrhopalum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMonactinellidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ridley 1881