Dyscritella enormis
No picture of Dyscritella enormis 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 Dyscritella enormis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DyscritellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dyscritella enormis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dyscritella enormis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dyscritella enormis and its relatives
PermianWhere Dyscritella enormis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Mackinneyella hinganensis2 sites
- Septopora orientalis2 sites
- Acanthocladia tumulosa1 site
- Alternifenestella tribifurcata1 site
- Cavernella arsenjevi1 site
- Dyscritella parallela1 site
- Dyscritella russiensis1 site
- Fenestella ussuriensis1 site
- Girtypora paula1 site
- Girtypora valida1 site
- Hayasakapora sakagamii1 site
- Mackinneyella pseudoornamentata1 site
- Maychella ornata1 site
- Minilya paratuberculifera1 site
- Parapolypora daurica1 site
- Parapolypora romantchukae1 site
- Parastenodiscus elegans1 site
- Penniretepora1 site
- Polypora maychensis1 site
- Polyporella perturbata1 site
- Primorella polita1 site
- Rectifenestella permulta1 site
- Rectifenestella pseudoretiformis1 site
- Rectifenestella superretiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dyscritella enormis, 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 referenceEach of the 3 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 Dyscritella enormis 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 Dyscritella enormis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dyscritella enormis 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.
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What may have been alongside itDyscritella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morozova 1970