Druppatractus
No picture of Druppatractus 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 Druppatractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylosphaeridaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Druppatractus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene20%
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 the same rock
28 taxa- Prunopyle5 sites
- Antarctissa4 sites
- Desmospyris4 sites
- Polysolenia4 sites
- Spongotrochus4 sites
- Cycladophora3 sites
- Eucyrtidium3 sites
- Helotholus3 sites
- Sphaeropyle3 sites
- Spongopyle3 sites
- Stylatractus3 sites
- Stylodictya3 sites
- Hexacontium2 sites
- Acanthodesmia1 site
- Amphistylus1 site
- Artostobium1 site
- Ceratocyrtis1 site
- Cornutella1 site
- Dendrospyris1 site
- Haliommetta1 site
- Larcopyle1 site
- Lonchosphaera1 site
- Octodendron1 site
- Peripyramis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Druppatractus, 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 referencesEach of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Druppatractus 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 Druppatractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Druppatractus 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 itStylosphaeridae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1887