Clathrodictyon mammillatum

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Clathrodictyon mammillatum on record. 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- Ordovician67%
- Silurian33%
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 Clathrodictyon mammillatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Catenipora2 sites
- Tryplasma2 sites
- Agetolites1 site
- Anticostia1 site
- Bajgolia1 site
- Beitaia1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
- Brevilamnulella1 site
- Calostylis concavifundatus1 site
- Cantrillia1 site
- Clathrodictyon gregale1 site
- Clathrodictyon microundulatum1 site
- Clathrodictyon sulevi1 site
- Clathrodictyon zonatum1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Cysticonophyllum)1 site
- Desmograptus1 site
- Dicellograptus complanatus1 site
- Ecclimadictyon koigiense1 site
- Ecclimadictyon porkuni1 site
- Encrinuroides zhenxiongensis1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Halysites1 site
- Harrisoceras1 site
- Heliolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Clathrodictyon mammillatum, 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- Earliest known spatial competition between stromatoporoids: evidence from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China1
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
- Ordovician and Llandoverian Stromatoporoidea of Estonia1
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 Clathrodictyon mammillatum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clathrodictyon mammillatum 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 timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1858