Clathrodictyon boreale

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClathrodictyonPBDB
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 least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 54 occurrencesSilurian — about 53 of 54 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 54 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 13 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 26 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 13 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440.8 Mya393.47 Mya444 Mya387 Mya

54 occurrences of Clathrodictyon boreale 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

54 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

10 formations

Tamsalu — 58.23°N, 25.31°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.97°ETamsalu — 58.79°N, 22.83°ETamsalu — 58.93°N, 23.75°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.43°ETamsalu — 59.16°N, 26.09°ETamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°ETamsalu — 58.68°N, 26.09°EBecscie — 49.38°N, 62.22°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WBecscie — 49.62°N, 63.43°WBecscie — 49.38°N, 62.43°WBecscie — 49.73°N, 63.83°WBecscie — 49.57°N, 63.15°WGun River — 49.23°N, 62.47°WGun River — 49.20°N, 61.72°WGun River — 49.60°N, 63.77°WGun River — 49.53°N, 63.65°WGun River — 49.38°N, 62.42°WGun River — 49.50°N, 63.13°WJupiter — 49.20°N, 61.73°WJupiter — 49.13°N, 62.35°WJupiter — 49.25°N, 62.33°WKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EMerrimack — 49.62°N, 63.75°WMerrimack — 49.33°N, 61.97°WMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 23.02°EBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°EVarbola — 58.68°N, 26.09°E

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The named rock units Clathrodictyon boreale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clathrodictyon boreale and its relatives

Silurian

Where Clathrodictyon boreale and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Clathrodictyon boreale, 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

9 references

Each of the 54 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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Picture of Clathrodictyon boreale

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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 itClathrodictyon through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riabinin 1951