Psarodictyum magna
No picture of Psarodictyum magna 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 Psarodictyum magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsarodictyumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Psarodictyum magna 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
1 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 Psarodictyum magna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Psarodictyum magna and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Psarodictyum magna and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Annelida1 site
- Archaeoscyphia minganensis1 site
- Archaeoscyphia pulchra1 site
- Aulocopium sanjuanensis1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calycocoelia1 site
- Calycocoelia perforata1 site
- Hudsonospongia cyclostoma1 site
- Patellispongia1 site
- Patellispongia robusta1 site
- Pelmatozoa1 site
- Porifera1 site
- Rhopalocoelia1 site
- Rhopalocoelia clarkii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Psarodictyum magna, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Psarodictyum magna 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 Psarodictyum magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psarodictyum magna 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 itPsarodictyum through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beresi and Rigby 1993