Cystodictya

Cystodictya is a genus of prehistoric bryozoans in the extinct family Cystodictyonidae.

Cystodictya

Moore, Raymond C. · CC BY 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
CystodictyonidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 99 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 91 of 99 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 99 occurrencesPermian396–392 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 4 occurrences355–350 Mya — about 5 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 8 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 24 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 24 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 10 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 3 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 3 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–305 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 1 occurrence297–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387.95 Mya283.3 Mya396 Mya272 Mya

99 occurrences of Cystodictya on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

99 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

35 formations

Edwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.78°N, 85.79°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.43°N, 85.40°WSalem Limestone — 37.33°N, 85.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.55°N, 85.70°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WSalem Limestone — 38.03°N, 86.03°WLittle Flat — 43.83°N, 111.75°WLittle Flat — 43.83°N, 111.48°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WDiamond Peak — 39.55°N, 115.81°WDiamond Peak — 39.57°N, 115.81°WPlum Brook Shale — 41.00°N, 83.00°WTin Mountain — 36.47°N, 117.65°WTin Mountain — 36.54°N, 117.03°WTin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°WLittle Valley — 36.75°N, 82.25°WLittle Valley — 36.88°N, 81.77°WChainman — 38.95°N, 113.89°WChainman — 39.33°N, 113.72°WFort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°WSaginaw Bay — 56.86°N, 134.15°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WLodgepole Limestone — 43.66°N, 111.33°WAlan Mountain Limestone — 47.42°N, 105.59°WBrazer Dolomite — 40.16°N, 110.40°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WCastle Reef Dolomite — 47.42°N, 105.59°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.05°N, 95.19°WMaynes Creek — 42.83°N, 93.24°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WHuntersville — 36.75°N, 82.25°WPrice — 36.75°N, 82.25°WHillsdale Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.25°WGrainger — 36.42°N, 84.31°W

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The named rock units Cystodictya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cystodictya and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cystodictya and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

783 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Cystodictya, 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

36 references

Each of the 99 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 Cystodictya

Source
GBIF
Credit
Moore, Raymond C.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882