Dystactella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClinopisthinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Solemyidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Solemyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solemyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Solemyidae

Time the record covers

At least 188 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 23 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 23 occurrencesPermian — about 21 of 23 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 23 occurrences453–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence289–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–269 Mya — about 3 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 10 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences443.1 Mya254.14 Mya453 Mya248 Mya

23 occurrences of Dystactella 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

23 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

13 formations

Ford — 54.89°N, 1.41°WShaiwa — 25.61°N, 106.15°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.97°EChhidru — 32.60°N, 71.82°EHalla — 57.50°N, 18.77°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.93°N, 23.28°EXuanwei — 25.94°N, 104.50°ELekvorkuta — 65.75°N, 59.50°EShaksgam — 35.71°N, 77.03°EMaokou — 32.62°N, 105.86°EZechstein — 50.88°N, 11.52°EPyle Mountain Argillite — 46.68°N, 68.22°WPechishchi — 55.78°N, 48.93°EGungri — 32.04°N, 78.32°E

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The named rock units Dystactella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dystactella and its relatives

Permian

Where Dystactella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Dystactella, 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

17 references

Each of the 23 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. 5 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 Dystactella 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 Dystactella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dystactella 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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What may have been alongside itClinopisthinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Whitfield 1872