Oslodictyon
No picture of Oslodictyon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oslodictyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClathrodictyidaePBDB
- 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 most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 431.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Oslodictyon 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Oslodictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oslodictyon and its relatives
SilurianWhere Oslodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Clathrodictyon variolare2 sites
- Algae1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bumastidae indet.1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Catenipora quadrata1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Clathrodictyon delicatulum1 site
- Dalejina hybrida1 site
- Densastroma pexisum1 site
- Dolerorthis rustica1 site
- Ecclimadictyon fastigiatum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon microfastigiatum1 site
- Ecrinuridae indet.1 site
- Estonirhynchia1 site
- Favositidae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Halysites senior1 site
- Halysitidae1 site
- Harpidae indet.1 site
- Heliolitidae1 site
- Leptaena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Oslodictyon, 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- Nestor et al., 20101
- Community structure and succession of Baltoscandian Early Palaeozoic stromatoporoids1
- Locality 6:1 Panga Cliff1
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
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No picture of Oslodictyon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oslodictyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oslodictyon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itClathrodictyidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mori 1978