Clathrodictyon delicatulum

Kala, E. · 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
- 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 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 433.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.8 Mya to 425 Mya.
6 occurrences of Clathrodictyon delicatulum 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
6 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Clathrodictyon delicatulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clathrodictyon delicatulum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Clathrodictyon delicatulum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Clathrodictyon variolare3 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus3 sites
- Actinodictyon suevicum2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Aulopora assueta2 sites
- Catenipora maxima2 sites
- Catenipora vespertina2 sites
- Ecclimadictyon fastigiatum2 sites
- Favosites favosiformis2 sites
- Halysites2 sites
- Mesofavosites obliquus2 sites
- Palaeofavosites aliquantulus2 sites
- Palaeofavosites jaaniensis2 sites
- Palaeofavosites septosus2 sites
- Pentamerus (Pentamerus) oblongus2 sites
- Rosenella dentata2 sites
- Simplexodictyon2 sites
- Stegerhynchus estonicus2 sites
- Subalveolites eichwaldi2 sites
- Actinodictyon1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Aphyllum1 site
- Aulopora celsa1 site
- Batocara1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Clathrodictyon delicatulum, 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- Ordovician and Llandoverian Stromatoporoidea of Estonia2
- Nestor et al., 20101
- Australian communities1
- Locality 6:1 Panga Cliff1
- Lower Wenlock faunal and floral dynamics - Vattenfallet section, Gotland1
Each of the 6 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 Clathrodictyon delicatulum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kala, E.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Clathrodictyon delicatulum 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 itClathrodictyon through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nestor 1964