Araneosustroma

Einasto, Rein · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DensastromatidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At most 7.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Araneosustroma on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Araneosustroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araneosustroma and its relatives
SilurianWhere Araneosustroma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Parallelostroma2 sites
- Parastriatopora2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Atrypa1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Catazone compressa1 site
- Clathrodictyella1 site
- Clathrodictyon1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cytherellina1 site
- Didymothyris biohermica1 site
- Didymothyris didyma1 site
- Ecclimadictyon1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Favosites forbesi1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Greenfieldia1 site
- Herrmannina1 site
- Holopea1 site
- Howellella1 site
- Hyattidina1 site
- Ilionia prisca1 site
- Leantoechia sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Araneosustroma, 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- New species of Stromatoporoidea from the Upper Ordovician and Silurian of the Subpolar Urals1
- The chief Wenlockian-Lochkovian benthic communities of the Vaigach to southern Novaya Zemlya region1
- Locality 6:7 Kogula Quarry1
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 content1

Picture of Araneosustroma
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Einasto, Rein
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itDensastromatidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lessovaja 1970