Distichoplax

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LithophylloideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 196 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 196 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 112 of 196 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 82 of 196 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 196 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 196 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 13 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 81 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 34 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 26 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 26 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya102 Mya21 Mya

196 occurrences of Distichoplax on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

196 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

38 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.27°N, 91.73°ENavarri — 42.40°N, 0.40°ESerraduy — 42.41°N, 0.40°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°EBarra Honda — 10.34°N, 85.39°WSouth Galala — 28.90°N, 32.32°ESouth Galala — 29.92°N, 32.35°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EBaratang — 12.19°N, 92.84°EBaratang — 12.89°N, 92.90°EBaratang — 12.84°N, 92.85°EBaratang — 12.79°N, 92.87°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.70°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EZelten — 29.28°N, 20.75°ETaleh Zang — 33.28°N, 47.83°ELakadong Limesetone — 29.03°N, 77.00°ESylhet — 25.23°N, 91.58°ELubina — 48.79°N, 17.69°EKravarikovci — 49.11°N, 18.44°EBiely Potok — 49.34°N, 19.65°EProc — 49.05°N, 21.46°EProc — 48.81°N, 22.32°EEsplugafreda — 42.32°N, 0.57°EShella — 25.43°N, 92.25°ESakesar — 32.67°N, 71.80°ETrstelj — 45.70°N, 13.90°ELameta — 22.06°N, 78.94°E

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The named rock units Distichoplax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distichoplax and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Distichoplax and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 180 sites for Distichoplax, 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

42 references

Each of the 196 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. 30 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Distichoplax 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1934