Pachydicta sp.
No picture of Pachydicta sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pachydicta sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pachydicta sp. on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician67%
- Silurian33%
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
3 formations
- Mannie Formation1
- Esbataottine Formation1
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group1
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The named rock units Pachydicta sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pachydicta sp. and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pachydicta sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Dalmanella2 sites
- Acanthoclema1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Anaphragma mirabile1 site
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Ancillotoechia bidentata1 site
- Anolotichia ponderosa1 site
- Apianurus parabarbatus1 site
- Arctinurus1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bairdiocypris1 site
- Bathyurus platyparius1 site
- Bathyurus ulu1 site
- Batostomella1 site
- Bolbopisthia1 site
- Calyptaulax strasburgensis1 site
- Camarotoechia neglecta1 site
- Ceraurinella seriata1 site
- Chasmatopora1 site
- Chilotrypa1 site
- Clathropora1 site
- Clionychia undata1 site
- Coeloclema1 site
- Constellaria polystomella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pachydicta sp., 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 references- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York1
Each 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. 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 Pachydicta sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pachydicta sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Pachydicta sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.