Dracolychnos annulirotatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DracolychnosPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dracolychnos annulirotatus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Dracolychnos annulirotatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dracolychnos annulirotatus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Dracolychnos annulirotatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Amonotis rothpletzi1 site
- Anatomites1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Arcticopora abnorme1 site
- Aulacothyris1 site
- Bacchites1 site
- Badiotella1 site
- Carinokoninckina telleri1 site
- Casearia articulata1 site
- Casearia decursiva1 site
- Casearia oblata1 site
- Catella1 site
- Caucasorhynchia1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Colleolus sp.1 site
- Costirhynchia1 site
- Creniepis sp.1 site
- Ctenokoninckina typica1 site
- Cubanothyris1 site
- Dentospiriferina1 site
- Discotropites formosus1 site
- Dracospongia undulata1 site
- Epithyroides1 site
- Euryalox1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dracolychnos annulirotatus, 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
1 reference- Triassic hexactinellid sponges from patch reefs in north-central Sichuan, People's Republic of China2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dracolychnos annulirotatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dracolychnos annulirotatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDracolychnos through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wu and Xiao 1989