Ponderodictya

Ponderodictya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HealdiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 36 of 36 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 4 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 4 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya375.2 Mya394 Mya371.6 Mya

36 occurrences of Ponderodictya 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

36 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

7 formations

Silica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WOnondaga — 40.42°N, 77.19°WOnondaga — 40.60°N, 77.57°WOnondaga — 40.54°N, 77.70°WOnondaga — 39.73°N, 78.08°WOnondaga — 39.26°N, 78.53°WMoscow — 42.87°N, 78.83°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EArkona Shale — 43.08°N, 81.80°W

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The named rock units Ponderodictya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ponderodictya and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ponderodictya and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

480 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Ponderodictya, 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

8 references

Each of the 36 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ponderodictya

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ponderodictya 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.

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What may have been alongside itHealdiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Malkin 1936