Clathrodictyella

Clathrodictyella is an extinct genus of sea sponges from the Silurian of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It is a member of the order Amphiporida in the extinct class Stromatoporoidea.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Amphiporidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 21 of 22 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 22 occurrencesDevonian431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 6 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 5 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 3 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425 Mya399.5 Mya431.3 Mya392.7 Mya

22 occurrences of Clathrodictyella 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

22 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

2 formations

Skala — 49.58°N, 23.90°EKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°E

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The named rock units Clathrodictyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clathrodictyella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Clathrodictyella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Clathrodictyella, 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

5 references

Each of the 22 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 Clathrodictyella 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 Clathrodictyella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Clathrodictyella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAmphiporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bogoyavlenskaya 1965