Plexodictyon

No picture of Plexodictyon 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 Plexodictyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinodictyidaePBDB
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 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 32 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 28 of 32 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 32 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 9 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 5 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449 Mya422.7 Mya453.8 Mya412.2 Mya

32 occurrences of Plexodictyon 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

32 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

16 formations

Sükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°EKolonga Suite — 60.15°N, 59.96°EBelubula — 33.00°S, 148.00°EBallingoole Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°EPetropavlovsk Suite — 60.15°N, 59.96°ETrubchin Suite — 48.50°N, 26.30°EWest Khatanzeya — 71.00°N, 58.00°EKuba Beds — 56.25°N, 59.27°EKuba — 57.00°N, 59.00°ESilverdale — 35.00°S, 149.00°EKeyser — 38.32°N, 79.63°WTsagaan-Bulag — 44.38°N, 99.45°ESundre — 56.93°N, 18.28°EVentspils — 57.38°N, 21.55°EUduvere — 58.23°N, 21.98°ESanjushan — 28.70°N, 118.35°E

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The named rock units Plexodictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plexodictyon and its relatives

Silurian

Where Plexodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Plexodictyon, 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

14 references

Each of the 32 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. 2 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

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No picture of Plexodictyon 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 Plexodictyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plexodictyon 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 itActinodictyidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nestor 1966