Ligulodictyum

Ligulodictyum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CleistoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At most 2.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

1 occurrence of Ligulodictyum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

1 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

1 formation

Armorique — 48.33°N, 4.45°W

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The named rock units Ligulodictyum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ligulodictyum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ligulodictyum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Ligulodictyum, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Ligulodictyum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCleistoporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plusquellec 1973