Atelodictyon stelliferum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtelodictyonPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Atelodictyon stelliferum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
12 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
5 formations
- Cairn Formation6
- Swan Hills Formation2
- Mikkwa Formation2
- Sadler Limestone Formation1
- Leduc Formation · Woodbend Group1
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The named rock units Atelodictyon stelliferum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atelodictyon stelliferum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Atelodictyon stelliferum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Actinostroma1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Dendrostroma1 site
- Hermatostroma1 site
- Pseudoactinodictyon1 site
- Stachyodes1 site
- Stromatopora1 site
- Stromatoporella1 site
- Trupetostroma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Atelodictyon stelliferum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
6 references- Stromatoporoid assemblages, Ancient Wall Reef Complex (Devonian), Alberta3
- Devonian stromatoporoids from the Canadian Rocky Mountains3
- Devonian stromatoporoids from central Alberta, Canada2
- Upper Devonian stromatoporoids from southern Northwest Territories and northern Alberta2
- Stromatoporoids from the Devonian reef complexes, Canning Basin, Western Australia1
- Upper Devonian stromatoporoids from the Redwater Reef Complex, Alberta1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Atelodictyon stelliferum 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 Atelodictyon stelliferum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atelodictyon stelliferum 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 itAtelodictyon through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stearn 1961