Prophyllodictya intermedia

Ernst Andrej · CC BY-NC 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
- ProphyllodictyaPBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Prophyllodictya intermedia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Prophyllodictya intermedia 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.
Prophyllodictya intermedia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Prophyllodictya intermedia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Dittopora annulata2 sites
- Revalotrypa gibbosa2 sites
- Revalotrypa papillaris2 sites
- Anaphragma verectum1 site
- Dianulites collucatus1 site
- Dianulites detritus1 site
- Dianulites janischevskyi1 site
- Diplotrypa moniliformis1 site
- Diplotrypa olgae1 site
- Dittopora sokolovi1 site
- Esthonioporella miranda1 site
- Lynnopora lunata1 site
- Orbipora acanthophora1 site
- Revalotrypa krestensis1 site
- Volborthia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Prophyllodictya intermedia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Bryozoan fauna from the Kunda Stage (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician) of Estonia and NW Russia1
- Bryozoans of the Latorp and Volkhov Horizons (Lower–Middle Ordovician) of the Leningrad Region1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Prophyllodictya intermedia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Ernst Andrej
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Prophyllodictya intermedia 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 itProphyllodictya through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorjunova and Lavrentjeva 1987